Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Illinois

HUD 14.871 meeting Illinois geography

The $3,732,201,994 total is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 14.871 (SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS) and Illinois as place of performance. The national 14.871 hub has no Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Three thousand eight hundred sixty-six awards is a many-instrument pattern typical of voucher assistance, which often posts numerous awards to public housing agencies rather than a single statewide block. The join still does not list those agencies, Chicago versus Downstate splits, or household counts. Packet facts stop at dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,732,201,994 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.871 and IL. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Illinois against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Chicago housing authorities are the mental model for many readers, yet IL is a statewide tag. 3866 awards totaling $3,732,201,994 can include Chicago, suburban, and downstate PHAs without naming any of them. The about $965,391 mean is an agency-scale figure. It should not be read as rent for one apartment or as a household’s annual subsidy.

Housing Choice Vouchers are not every HUD line

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers is CFDA 14.871. Project-based assistance, public housing operating funds, and other HUD catalogs use different numbers. Mixing those catalogs into $3,732,201,994 would overstate this cell.

Facts on this page: Illinois, CFDA 14.871, $3,732,201,994 obligated, 3,866 awards. Unit counts, waiting-list length, and landlord names are not in the facts. The catalog title describes the program family, not a tenant-level ledger.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,732,201,994, 3866 awards, CFDA 14.871, program title Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and geography IL/Illinois. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 3866 awards into $3,732,201,994 is about $965,391 per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

HUD assistance is a family of catalogs. 14.871 is vouchers. Other HUD numbers cover operating funds, HAP, and block grants. $3,732,201,994 is the voucher × Illinois cell only. Expanding the label to “all HUD in Illinois” would be a different join.

Questions

How much Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $3,732,201,994 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Illinois place of performance across 3,866 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay figure.

Does 3,866 awards mean 3,866 households?

No. The facts report 3,866 awards totaling $3,732,201,994. Voucher programs often award to housing agencies that then serve many households. Household counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this all HUD spending in Illinois?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Other HUD catalogs use other CFDA numbers and appear on separate Illinois program pages.

What is the average award size?

About $965,000 per award ($3,732,201,994 ÷ 3,866). That mean is not a median household subsidy and not a proof of rent paid.