Department of Housing and Urban Development obligations in Colorado 1st District (CO-01)
USAspending.gov tags $667,964,901.50 to Department of Housing and Urban Development inside Colorado 1st District (CO-01) — 3,146 award records, not outlays. Three thousand one hundred forty-six HUD-coded awards equal about eight percent of CO-01’s district obligation total, a mass-action housing file beside Agriculture’s separate CO-02 cell. That pair is Department of Housing and Urban Development and Colorado 1st District (CO-01) — not Colorado’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Housing and Urban Development nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 7.5% of this district’s published obligation total ($8,856,542,820.99). Implied average obligation is about $212,321.96 ($667,964,901.50 ÷ 3,146). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- HUD in Colorado 1st District (CO-01): $667,964,901.50 across 3,146 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $212,321.96 per record; district share 7.5% of $8,856,542,820.99.
- Agency 086 × CO-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Colorado 1st District and Department of Housing and Urban Development if live tables moved.
- Colorado federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $667,964,901.50.
HUD obligations coded to Colorado 1st District (CO-01)
Awarding agency 086 and congressional district CO-01 meet here. $667,964,901.50 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Housing and Urban Development’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Colorado 1st District (CO-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split HUD programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 3,146 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a housing-unit census, a voucher caseload, or a named-grantee file.
Dividing $667,964,901.50 by 3,146 yields about $212,321.96 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 3,146 awards is a thick HUD file: orders and modifications multiply lines. The implied mean is pulled down by volume and is not a typical voucher. Do not treat CO-01’s 086 cell as a synonym for every HUD account nationwide. Open Colorado 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Housing and Urban Development for agency 086 without the CO-01 filter, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the Colorado extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $667,964,901.50.
What HUD contributes to this pair
USAspending labels awarding agency 086 as Department of Housing and Urban Development. That code produced $667,964,901.50 when crossed with Colorado 1st District (CO-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 086 hub does not require CO-01 geography. The district hub does not require HUD. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3,146 awards. The packet does not split HUD programs or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Colorado 1st District (CO-01) did not “cause” $667,964,901.50 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 086 × CO-01 only. It is not a housing-unit census, a voucher caseload, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
District geography versus Colorado statewide totals
Colorado 1st District (CO-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CO-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Colorado districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 086. Colorado 1st District (CO-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Colorado. Other Colorado districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 086. Colorado 1st District (CO-01) is not Colorado 2nd District. Same state, different place-of-performance stamps, different awarding-agency pairs.
Why this is not an outlay register
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $667,964,901.50 is that kind of sum for Department of Housing and Urban Development inside CO-01 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $667,964,901.50 as given.
Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 3,146-row HUD cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 3,146 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($212,321.96) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CO-01 HUD payment.
Live tables versus this snapshot
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Housing and Urban Development (agency 086) obligated $667,964,901.50 on 3,146 awards coded to Colorado 1st District (CO-01). Name Department of Housing and Urban Development and Colorado 1st District (CO-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Colorado 1st District or Department of Housing and Urban Development has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a housing-unit census, a voucher caseload, or a named-grantee file. 7.5% of $8,856,542,820.99 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Department of Housing and Urban Development, Colorado 1st District (CO-01), $667,964,901.50, and 3,146 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the 086 parent without a CO-01 filter. Colorado federal spending is the Colorado parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with HUD does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.
What this packet refuses to infer
3,146 awards is a thick HUD file: orders and modifications multiply lines. The implied mean is pulled down by volume and is not a typical voucher. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $212,321.96) and the district share (7.5% of $8,856,542,820.99) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Colorado 1st District and Department of Housing and Urban Development if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much HUD spending is coded to Colorado 1st District (CO-01)?
- USAspending.gov lists $667,964,901.50 in HUD (agency 086) obligations across 3,146 awards coded to Colorado 1st District (CO-01). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Colorado’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.5% of the district’s published total ($8,856,542,820.99). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Does $667,964,901.50 include every HUD program in CO-01?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split HUD programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $667,964,901.50 is the combined obligation sum for agency 086 inside CO-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 3,146 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $667,964,901.50 cash already paid in Colorado 1st District (CO-01)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $667,964,901.50 as checks already cleared in Colorado 1st District (CO-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3,146 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- What share of CO-01 obligations is agency 086?
- Agency 086 accounts for 7.5% of $8,856,542,820.99 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $667,964,901.50 ÷ $8,856,542,820.99. It is not a ranking of Colorado districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total on other ties.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.