General Services Administration in Georgia

A high-count HUD file on Georgia

Department of Housing and Urban Development as awarding agency, Georgia as place-of-performance: 41,079 records summing to $5,270,668,364.32. A Department of Housing and Urban Development award coded outside GA is out. An award in Georgia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Georgia (GA) excludes Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A Jacksonville-coded award is Florida.

Forty-one thousand seventy-nine awards is a high-count HUD file. Volume can rise on recurring assistance without each row being a new household. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 41,079 as 41,079 unique households, unique landlords, or a rent index. The overlay Department of Housing and Urban Development in Georgia is the both-keys table. Georgia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency book without a GA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Atlanta and rural PHAs are unpublished. A high count with a mid-billions stock yields a lower implied mean than a thin HUD cell would. Correlation is not causation: Georgia did not “cause” $5,270,668,364.32 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 086 × GA only.

41,079 rows are not 41,079 households

$5,270,668,364.32 does not measure households, unique landlords, or a rent index. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 086 and a GA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 41,079 awards as a census of households, unique landlords, or a rent index. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Georgia federal spending or Department of Housing and Urban Development matched $5,270,668,364.32 and 41,079, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina HUD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $5,270,668,364.32 across 41,079 awards with awarding agency 086 and a Georgia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of households, unique landlords, or a rent index. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Georgia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,270,668,364.32.

Is $5,270,668,364.32 a measure of households, unique landlords, or a rent index?

No. The packet publishes $5,270,668,364.32 and 41,079 awards for agency 086 inside GA 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 41,079 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × GA. Combined with $5,270,668,364.32, the average is about $128,306. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 41,079 is not unique households, unique landlords, or a rent index. 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 Georgia is the overlay. Georgia 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 $5,270,668,364.32. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.