Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Massachusetts

Project-based HAP meeting Massachusetts

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Filtered to Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $3,561,899,237.64 on 2,353 awards. The national 14.195 hub is unfiltered by state. The Massachusetts spending hub is unfiltered by CFDA. This tie is the overlap.

Two thousand three hundred fifty-three awards is a many-contract pattern: HAP assistance often posts numerous awards to properties or agencies rather than one statewide grant. The join does not list developments, Boston versus Springfield splits, or unit counts. Packet facts stop at $3,561,899,237.64, 2,353 awards, MA, and 14.195.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,561,899,237.64 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.195 and MA. 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 Massachusetts against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Housing Assistance Payments is a project-based catalog, distinct from tenant-based vouchers. 2353 awards totaling $3,561,899,237.64 is a many-contract HAP pattern. The about $1.51 million mean is a contract-scale figure. Unit counts and property names are not in the packet.

14.195 is not Housing Choice Vouchers

Housing Assistance Payments (14.195) and Housing Choice Vouchers (a different HUD CFDA) are separate catalogs. Mixing voucher dollars into $3,561,899,237.64 would overstate this cell. Public housing operating funds and HOME investment partnerships likewise sit on other Massachusetts program pages.

Facts here: Massachusetts, CFDA 14.195, $3,561,899,237.64, 2,353 awards. Tenant names, contract expiration dates, and Fair Market Rents are not in the facts. The catalog title names the program family, not a waiting-list length.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,561,899,237.64, 2353 awards, CFDA 14.195, program title Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program, and geography MA/Massachusetts. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 2353 awards into $3,561,899,237.64 is about $1.51 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Confusing Housing Assistance Payments with Housing Choice Vouchers is a common error. This page is HAP, not vouchers. $3,561,899,237.64 on 2,353 awards stays inside 14.195 × MA. Voucher dollars, if any, live on another Massachusetts program page.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $3,561,899,237.64 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance across 2,353 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay.

Is this the same as Housing Choice Vouchers?

No. This join is CFDA 14.195 (Housing Assistance Payments Program). Voucher catalogs use a different CFDA number and sit on separate pages. The $3,561,899,237.64 total does not include those other cells.

Does 2,353 awards mean 2,353 apartments?

No. The facts report 2,353 awards totaling $3,561,899,237.64. Unit counts are not in the packet. Awards can cover multiple units or multi-year contracts.

What is the average award?

About $1.51 million ($3,561,899,237.64 ÷ 2,353). That mean is not a typical household subsidy and not a median rent.