Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Minnesota

What the 14.195–Minnesota join is

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, the obligation sum is $880,649,849.14 on 1,835 awards. The national HAP hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $880,649,849.14 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of project-based units in Minneapolis or Duluth.

A many-award pattern fits project-based HAP: owners and contract administrators often appear as separate assistance records. The join does not name those owners, split the Twin Cities from Greater Minnesota, or count assisted units. Packet facts stop at $880,649,849.14, 1,835 awards, MN, and 14.195. Correlation is not causation.

14.195 is not tenant-based HCV in Minnesota

Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) is a different HUD catalog. Mixing tenant-based vouchers into $880,649,849.14 would invent a broader rental-assistance total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 14.195, $880,649,849.14, 1,835 awards. Contract rents and HAP payment dates are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Housing Assistance Payments, not a claim about Minnesota’s affordable-housing shortage. Dividing $880,649,849.14 by 1,835 yields about $479,918 per award—a contract-administrator scale smaller than a ten-award block because the count is high. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,835 is not a count of buildings.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending records $880,649,849.14 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 1,835 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Housing Choice Vouchers. Keep Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program and Minnesota together when citing $880,649,849.14.

Is this the same as Housing Choice Vouchers in Minnesota?

No. Housing Assistance Payments are CFDA 14.195. Housing Choice Vouchers use CFDA 14.871. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $880,649,849.14. 1,835 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 1,835 awards mean 1,835 buildings?

1,835 is a USAspending award-record count, not a building or unit census. The implied mean is about $479,918 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $880,649,849.14 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program–Minnesota table.

Is $880.6 million Minnesota’s full federal housing spend?

No. $880,649,849.14 is only the 14.195 × Minnesota cell. Other HUD catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 14.195 is not limited to Minnesota. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.195 × MN pair.