Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Georgia

What the 14.871–Georgia join is

CFDA 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. Crossed with Georgia place of performance, the obligation sum is $2,056,724,600 on 1,577 awards. The national Housing Choice Voucher hub includes other states. Georgia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,056,724,600 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of leased apartments in Atlanta or Savannah.

A many-award pattern fits tenant-based vouchers: housing authorities and owners often appear as separate assistance records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name those authorities, split Fulton from rural counties, or count households. Packet facts stop at $2,056,724,600, 1,577 awards, GA, and 14.871. Correlation is not causation.

14.871 is not project-based HAP

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments (CFDA 14.195) is a different HUD catalog. Mixing project-based HAP into $2,056,724,600 would invent a broader rental-assistance total than this cell contains. Public housing capital and operating funds use other numbers still. Facts available: Georgia, CFDA 14.871, $2,056,724,600, 1,577 awards. Bedroom counts, payment standards, and wait-list length are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Housing Choice Vouchers, not a claim about Georgia’s vacancy rate. Dividing $2,056,724,600 by 1,577 yields about $1.30 million per award—a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Atlanta voucher contract and not a per-household subsidy. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,577 is not a count of landlords.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Georgia?

USAspending records $2,056,724,600 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Georgia place of performance on 1,577 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every HUD rental CFDA. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Georgia together when citing $2,056,724,600.

Is this the same as project-based Section 8 in Georgia?

No. Housing Choice Vouchers are CFDA 14.871. Project-based Housing Assistance Payments use CFDA 14.195. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $2,056,724,600. 1,577 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 1,577 awards mean 1,577 households?

1,577 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household or unit census. The implied mean is about $1.30 million per award. Unique recipients and leased-unit counts are unpublished. Obligations of $2,056,724,600 are not outlays.

Is $2.06 billion Georgia’s full federal housing spend?

No. $2,056,724,600 is only the 14.871 × Georgia cell. Other HUD catalogs appear on separate Georgia program pages. Nationwide 14.871 is not limited to Georgia. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.871 × GA pair.