General Services Administration in California

Half a million HUD records on CA

This relationship page isolates agency 086 and place-of-performance CA. $32,228,606,976.39 is the obligation sum. 502,520 is the award count. A high count with a low-thirties-of-billions dollar total produces a mean near $64,100. Many modest actions can sit beside fewer large instruments inside the same sum.

Department of Homeland Security in California (070) and Department of Transportation in California (069) are other pairs. They are not included in $32,228,606,976.39. Housing program names — vouchers, public housing, block grants — are not in the facts, so they are not assigned shares.

A useful check on $32,228,606,976.39 is to ask what 502,520 records implies. A large sum on few rows concentrates. A large sum on many rows dilutes the mean. That check is still not a ranking of states. It is a reading of this file’s shape.

Agency 086 as a filter

Department of Housing and Urban Development is the USAspending label for 086. The agency hub without California will not equal $32,228,606,976.39. The California hub without 086 includes 069, 070, and every other awarding agency tagged to CA. Overlay /states/ca/agencies/086/ is the both-keys table for 502,520 awards.

Parent hubs are supposed to be larger. If they matched $32,228,606,976.39 and 502,520, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Use the parents when one key should drop.

Questions

How much has HUD obligated in California?

USAspending records $32,228,606,976.39 in obligations for agency 086 with California place of performance, on 502,520 awards. That is the HUD–California join only. The pair is awarding agency 086 (Department of Housing and Urban Development) and place-of-performance California. It is not Department of Housing and Urban Development nationwide and not California from every awarding agency.

Why are there 502,520 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × CA. Combined with $32,228,606,976.39, the average is about $64,100. The count is not unique recipients. High-volume housing files can accumulate many small records. 502,520 is the award-record count for this pair, not unique vendors.

Does this include DHS or DOT in California?

No. Those joins use agencies 070 and 069. This page is Department of Housing and Urban Development 086: $32,228,606,976.39 on 502,520 awards. Only place-of-performance California plus awarding agency 086 (Department of Housing and Urban Development) enter $32,228,606,976.39. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. The 502,520 figure is a record count, not a household count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance California is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.