Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Tennessee

One thousand seven hundred seventy-four HAP records

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 14.195 meets Tennessee place of performance. The dollar book is $1,200,433,692. The award count is 1,774. Project-based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments typically post as many contract-level actions with owners and contract administrators rather than a single statewide formula grant. One thousand seven hundred seventy-four records still do not equal 1,774 apartment communities; renewals, amendments, and modifications can share the tape.

The join does not prove that Tennessee’s rent-burden rate, Nashville-area growth, or a particular public-housing authority caseload caused $1,200,433,692. Those are other series. This packet does not split elderly properties from family properties. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Tennessee’s full HUD obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Tenant-based vouchers sit on a different catalog number. The 1,774 figure is a record count, not a unit count.

A contract-scale tape, not a formula block

One thousand seven hundred seventy-four awards under $1,200,433,692 imply a mean near $676,682 per award. Large multi-year HAP contracts can sit above that average; smaller amendments can sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten contracts.

Compared with single-award BEAD or CRF cells, 1,774 rows is a much thicker tape for a similar dollar order of magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern: project-based HAP posts at the contract grain. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical monthly HAP or as a typical unit subsidy.

Questions

How much Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments spending is in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov shows $1,200,433,692 in CFDA 14.195 obligations coded to Tennessee across 1,774 awards. The join uses the program number and Tennessee place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 1,774 awards mean 1,774 apartment properties?

No. The extract counts 1,774 award records tagged to CFDA 14.195 and Tennessee. Renewals, amendments, and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $676,682 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.20 billion Tennessee’s full federal housing spending?

No. $1,200,433,692 is only the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Tennessee place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 14.195 is not limited to Tennessee.

Do these obligations equal monthly HAP checks cashed?

No. $1,200,433,692 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Monthly housing-assistance payments can split across the contract year.