Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Illinois

Illinois and Section 8 HAP as a pair

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Crossed with Illinois place of performance, obligations sum to $1,641,391,053.95 on 1,967 awards. The national 14.195 hub includes other states. Illinois’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,641,391,053.95 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of project-based Section 8 units in Illinois.

1,967 awards is a project-based HAP file with nearly two thousand rows against a large sum. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $1,641,391,053.95, 1,967 awards, IL, and 14.195. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program and Illinois together when reading $1,641,391,053.95.

14.195 is not Housing Choice Vouchers

Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) are tenant-based. This Illinois overlay is CFDA 14.195, the Housing Assistance Payments Program. Mixing HAP and HCV invents a combined Section 8 book. Mixing those series into $1,641,391,053.95 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Illinois, CFDA 14.195, $1,641,391,053.95, 1,967 awards. Property names, owner names, and unit counts are unpublished.

The catalog title names Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program, not a ranking of Illinois properties. Dividing $1,641,391,053.95 by 1,967 yields about $834,464 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,967 is not a unit, property, or owner census.

Questions

How much Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $1,641,391,053.95 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Illinois place of performance on 1,967 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program and Illinois together when citing $1,641,391,053.95. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 1,967 awards mean 1,967 Illinois properties?

1,967 is a USAspending award-record count, not a unit, property, or owner census. The implied mean is about $834,464 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,967 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this the same as Illinois Housing Choice Vouchers?

No. This join is CFDA 14.195 only. Health centers (93.224), CCDBG (93.575), and disaster grants (97.036) are other Illinois program pages. Nationwide 14.195 is not limited to Illinois. Obligations of $1,641,391,053.95 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program–Illinois table.

Has this HAP money already been paid as rent?

No. $1,641,391,053.95 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 14.195 × IL pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.