Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in New York

New York × 14.871 is a voucher join, not a unit census

This page pairs CFDA 14.871, SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS, with New York place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $10,782,557,842 on 6,936 awards. The join is HUD's Housing Choice Voucher listing crossed with a New York location field, not New York's entire HUD book and not a count of voucher households or units. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 6,936 awards equal that many voucher households, housing units, or named PHAs.

Public housing operating funds, project-based Section 8, and HOME sit on other CFDA numbers unless they also carry 14.871. Correlation between this obligation sum and local need statistics is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. New York (NY) excludes New Jersey and Connecticut. A Newark PHA award is New Jersey, not this cell. Place of performance as New York locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $10,782,557,842 in the state treasury.

6,936 HUD rows behind a $10.78 billion book

Mean obligation is about $1.55 million if $10,782,557,842 were divided evenly across 6,936 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Six thousand nine hundred thirty-six records is a thick HUD assistance file. PHA names and unit counts are unpublished. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a census of voucher households, housing units, or named PHAs.

Six thousand nine hundred thirty-six awards are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in New York for the stored table. NYCHA, suburban PHAs, and upstate authorities are unpublished splits. Do not treat 6,936 as a building inventory. The $10,782,557,842 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

Questions

How much Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers funding is obligated in New York?

USAspending.gov shows $10,782,557,842 in obligations for CFDA 14.871 with New York as place of performance, across 6,936 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not New York's entire federal-spending total. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 14.871.

Do 6,936 awards equal 6,936 New York voucher households?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of voucher households, housing units, or named PHAs. The packet does not name recipients. See Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in New York for named lines as USAspending stored them. The implied mean near $1.55 million is a ratio, not a typical unit.

Is this New York's entire New York housing-aid budget?

No. The join is CFDA 14.871 crossed with New York place of performance. Related programs on other CFDA numbers are not inside $10,782,557,842 unless the award also carries 14.871. Public housing operating funds, project-based Section 8, and HOME sit on other CFDA numbers unless they also carry 14.871. Mixing catalogs would invent a combined figure the packet never computed.

Is the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers total already paid in New York?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $10,782,557,842 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet.