General Services Administration in Connecticut

A thick HUD file on Connecticut

Department of Housing and Urban Development as awarding agency, Connecticut as place-of-performance: 54,455 records summing to $3,478,472,779.39. A Department of Housing and Urban Development award coded outside CT is out. An award in Connecticut from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Connecticut (CT) excludes New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. A Springfield, Massachusetts-coded award is MA.

Fifty-four thousand four hundred fifty-five awards is a thick HUD action file. Recurring assistance can mint many rows without each row being a new building. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 54,455 as 54,455 unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. The overlay Department of Housing and Urban Development in Connecticut is the both-keys table. Connecticut federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency book without a CT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport are unpublished geography. $3,478,472,779.39 stays statewide on 086 × CT. Correlation is not causation: Connecticut did not “cause” $3,478,472,779.39 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 086 × CT only.

54,455 rows are not 54,455 housing units

$3,478,472,779.39 does not measure housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 086 and a CT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 54,455 awards as a census of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Connecticut federal spending or Department of Housing and Urban Development matched $3,478,472,779.39 and 54,455, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island HUD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Housing and Urban Development obligated in Connecticut?

USAspending.gov records $3,478,472,779.39 across 54,455 awards with awarding agency 086 and a Connecticut tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Connecticut is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,478,472,779.39.

Is $3,478,472,779.39 a measure of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households?

No. The packet publishes $3,478,472,779.39 and 54,455 awards for agency 086 inside CT coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this HUD file have 54,455 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × CT. Combined with $3,478,472,779.39, the average is about $63,878. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 54,455 is not unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Connecticut is the overlay. Connecticut federal spending and Department of Housing and Urban Development are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,478,472,779.39. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.