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Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts

CFDA 14.871 — federal program obligations to Massachusetts

Total obligated

$5.77B

Awards

7K

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) obligations tagged to Massachusetts total $4,620,977,063 on USAspending.gov across 6,507 awards. That row count is in the SSI-file neighborhood, not the four-row PBGC neighborhood on the same state tag. Housing assistance posts as many PHA-level actions; pension termination insurance posted as four large vehicles. The join is HUD 14.871 plus an MA place-of-performance tag, not a count of voucher households. Six thousand five hundred seven HCV actions are a PHA-scale grain on an MA tag, opposite the four-row PBGC cell on the same state.

Key figures

  • Massachusetts HCV (CFDA 14.871): $4,620,977,063 on 6,507 USAspending awards.
  • The implied mean is about $710,200 per award; that is not a typical monthly voucher.
  • 6,507 is an action count, not households or units.
  • Public housing and project-based assistance sit outside this join.
  • The join is 14.871 × MA, not an affordability ranking.

Thousands of voucher actions on a Massachusetts tag

Keep USAspending rows labeled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS whose geography is Massachusetts (MA). Six thousand five hundred seven awards remain. They sum to $4,620,977,063. Housing Choice Vouchers are administered by public housing agencies. USAspending can record many PHA-level assistance actions rather than one row per household.

The implied mean is about $710,200 per award. That is PHA-vehicle size in this extract, not a typical monthly voucher. Unique households, unique landlords, and unique PHAs are unpublished.

Massachusetts federal spending is every CFDA on MA. CFDA 14.871 is HCV nationwide. Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts is the overlap. Massachusetts programs and All spending ties are the indexes. Pension termination insurance on 86.001 is a different Massachusetts pair.

Public housing agencies administer vouchers. Unique households and unique units are unpublished. 6,507 is an action count.

Boston is not broken out. $4,620,977,063 is statewide Massachusetts.

Public housing and project-based Section 8 are other Catalog numbers

Public-housing operating funds, project-based rental assistance, and Continuum of Care homeless programs use other CFDA numbers. They are not inside $4,620,977,063. A complete Massachusetts housing-assistance story would need those joins separately.

Place-of-performance can follow the PHA. An MA tag does not prove every voucher unit sits in Massachusetts; portability can move households. Conversely, Massachusetts units can sit on another state’s extract if the administering PHA is coded elsewhere.

Do not treat 6,507 as 6,507 Boston apartments. Action counts are not unit counts.

Portability can move a household while the administering PHA stays coded to MA — or the reverse. Place of performance is not a unit map.

Project-based Section 8 and public-housing operating funds use other Catalog numbers.

Full analysis: Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher funding in Massachusetts →

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Massachusetts?
USAspending.gov shows $4,620,977,063 across 6,507 awards for CFDA 14.871 tagged to Massachusetts. That is an obligation join, not a count of voucher households.
Does 6,507 awards mean 6,507 Massachusetts vouchers?
No. Six thousand five hundred seven is an award-action count, often at the PHA level. Unique households and unique units are not published in this packet.
Does this include public housing in Massachusetts?
No. Public housing uses other CFDA numbers. This join is only 14.871, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers.
Where is the live Massachusetts HCV table?
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts. See also Massachusetts federal spending, Massachusetts programs, CFDA 14.871, and All spending ties.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

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