Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Connecticut

Connecticut and Housing Choice Vouchers as a pair

CFDA 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. Crossed with Connecticut place of performance, obligations sum to $1,559,135,579 on 2,562 awards. The national 14.871 hub includes other states. Connecticut’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,559,135,579 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of voucher households in Connecticut.

2,562 awards is a thick voucher file with thousands of rows, thinner than Pennsylvania's 4,871-award overlay. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $1,559,135,579, 2,562 awards, CT, and 14.871. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Connecticut together when reading $1,559,135,579.

14.871 is not public-housing operating subsidy

Pennsylvania's Housing Choice Voucher overlay is $2,374,050,540 across 4,871 awards. Connecticut is $1,559,135,579 across 2,562. Those are other state keys on CFDA 14.871, not add-ons. Mixing those series into $1,559,135,579 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Connecticut, CFDA 14.871, $1,559,135,579, 2,562 awards. PHA names, unit counts, and tenant names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, not a ranking of Connecticut housing authorities. Dividing $1,559,135,579 by 2,562 yields about $608,562 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 2,562 is not a household, unit, or PHA census.

Bridgeport sitting near New York does not pull NY-coded awards into $1,559,135,579. A 2,562-row file yields about $608,562 per award, a higher per-row ratio than Pennsylvania's thicker HCV file. That is arithmetic across joins, not a ranking of housing authorities. Recipients remain unpublished. Quote Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Connecticut, CFDA 14.871, Connecticut federal spending, Connecticut programs, and All spending ties as separate pages rather than summing them.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Connecticut?

USAspending records $1,559,135,579 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Connecticut place of performance on 2,562 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Connecticut together when citing $1,559,135,579. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 2,562 awards mean 2,562 Connecticut voucher households?

2,562 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household, unit, or PHA census. The implied mean is about $608,562 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 2,562 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Connecticut's total federal housing spending?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Other Connecticut program pages list other CFDAs; this cell is 14.871 only. Nationwide 14.871 is not limited to Connecticut. Obligations of $1,559,135,579 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Connecticut table.

Has this voucher money already been paid as rent?

No. $1,559,135,579 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.871 × CT pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.