General Services Administration in Minnesota

A thick HUD file on Minnesota

Department of Housing and Urban Development as awarding agency, Minnesota as place-of-performance: 37,556 records summing to $3,197,175,829.40. A Department of Housing and Urban Development award coded outside MN is out. An award in Minnesota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. A Fargo-coded award is North Dakota.

Thirty-seven thousand five hundred fifty-six awards is a thick HUD action file. Recurring assistance can mint many rows without each row being a new building. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 37,556 as 37,556 unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. The overlay Department of Housing and Urban Development in Minnesota is the both-keys table. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency book without an MN filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Minneapolis–St. Paul is unpublished geography. $3,197,175,829.40 stays statewide on 086 × MN. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not “cause” $3,197,175,829.40 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 086 × MN only.

37,556 rows are not 37,556 units

$3,197,175,829.40 does not measure housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 086 and an MN place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 37,556 awards as a census of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Minnesota federal spending or Department of Housing and Urban Development matched $3,197,175,829.40 and 37,556, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota HUD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Housing and Urban Development obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records $3,197,175,829.40 across 37,556 awards with awarding agency 086 and a Minnesota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,197,175,829.40.

Is $3,197,175,829.40 a measure of housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households?

No. The packet publishes $3,197,175,829.40 and 37,556 awards for agency 086 inside MN coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this HUD file have 37,556 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × MN. Combined with $3,197,175,829.40, the average is about $85,131. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 37,556 is not unique housing units, unique PHAs, or voucher households. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota federal spending and Department of Housing and Urban Development are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,197,175,829.40. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.