Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania and Housing Choice Vouchers as a pair

CFDA 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. Crossed with Pennsylvania place of performance, obligations sum to $2,374,050,540 on 4,871 awards. The national 14.871 hub includes other states. Pennsylvania’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,374,050,540 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of voucher households in Pennsylvania.

4,871 awards is a thick voucher file with thousands of rows against a large sum. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $2,374,050,540, 4,871 awards, PA, and 14.871. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Pennsylvania together when reading $2,374,050,540.

14.871 is not the Public Housing Operating Fund

Public Housing Operating Fund (CFDA 14.850) in Pennsylvania is a different HUD catalog in this harvest. Mixing 14.871 and 14.850 would invent a combined housing book the packet never computed. Mixing those series into $2,374,050,540 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Pennsylvania, CFDA 14.871, $2,374,050,540, 4,871 awards. PHA names, unit counts, and tenant names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, not a ranking of Pennsylvania housing authorities. Dividing $2,374,050,540 by 4,871 yields about $487,385 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,871 is not a household, unit, or PHA census.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending records $2,374,050,540 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Pennsylvania place of performance on 4,871 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Pennsylvania together when citing $2,374,050,540. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 4,871 awards mean 4,871 Pennsylvania voucher households?

4,871 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household, unit, or PHA census. The implied mean is about $487,385 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,871 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Pennsylvania's total federal housing spending?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Public Housing Operating Fund (14.850) and other HUD catalogs appear on separate Pennsylvania program pages. Nationwide 14.871 is not limited to Pennsylvania. Obligations of $2,374,050,540 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Pennsylvania table.

Has this voucher money already been paid as rent?

No. $2,374,050,540 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.871 × PA pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.