Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Alabama

What the Alabama × 14.195 join actually measures

This page exists because two USAspending tables meet. One side is CFDA 14.195, titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. The other is Alabama as the recorded place of performance. SpendingVault’s extract sums assistance-award obligations that carry both tags: $735,411,500 on 938 awards. The pair is not a claim that Alabama’s legislature appropriated that amount, not a count of vouchers in circulation, and not a score of which cities received more help. Place of performance is a coding field on the award. Recipients, contract administrators, and households served can sit elsewhere than the state code implies.

The join also is not the full HUD housing ledger for Alabama. Other assistance listings cover tenant-based vouchers, public housing operating funds, or HOME dollars. Those rows are outside $735,411,500 unless they also carry 14.195. Correlation between this CFDA and Alabama’s rental market is not causation: the extract does not say why an award was made, whether a project was completed, or how many units were leased. It reports the obligation rollup on the tagged pair.

Reading $735.4 million as HAP commitments, not rent paid

Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) in program language are the federal share of rent on assisted units. USAspending still stores the $735,411,500 as obligations — legal commitments on assistance awards — not as a rent-check register. A public housing agency or owner can hold an obligated award whose draws lag the commitment date. Deobligations and recoveries can shrink what eventually leaves the Treasury without this catalog line rewriting itself into an outlay table. SpendingVault reprints the obligation metric so Alabama’s 14.195 row can be compared with other state-program joins on the same terms.

No fiscal year is attached to the headline in this packet. Treat $735,411,500 as the sum present in the indexed extract, not a single appropriations cycle and not a one-year HAP budget. If a local housing authority publishes a different Section 8 figure, check whether that source is counting voucher allocations, annual contributions, or a subset of contracts this CFDA number does not split.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov assistance awards tagged CFDA 14.195 with Alabama as place of performance show $735,411,500 in obligations across 938 awards. That sum is a commitment total, not Treasury outlays and not Alabama’s full housing budget. Other HUD listings are outside this join unless they also carry 14.195.

Does 938 awards mean 938 Alabama housing projects?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include renewals and modifications. It is not a property census, landlord count, or household count. The packet does not split project-based contracts from other instruments. Inspect the Alabama 14.195 overlay for named award lines.

Is $735.4 million already paid as rent assistance?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments. The $735,411,500 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Draw timing, HAP disbursements, and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

Is this Alabama’s entire Section 8 program?

No. The join is CFDA 14.195 crossed with Alabama place of performance. Tenant-based vouchers, public housing, and other HUD listings can sit on different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $735,411,500 unless the award also carries 14.195. The packet has no nationwide 14.195 total on this page.