Department of Housing and Urban Development federal obligations in Colorado

A high-count HUD file on Colorado

Department of Housing and Urban Development as awarding agency, Colorado as place-of-performance: 19,876 records summing to $2,900,399,789.60. A Department of Housing and Urban Development award coded outside CO is out. An award in Colorado from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming.

Nineteen thousand eight hundred seventy-six records is a thick HUD action file. Volume can rise on recurring assistance without each row being a new household. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 19,876 as 19,876 unique housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities. The overlay Department of Housing and Urban Development in Colorado is the both-keys table. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the agency book without a CO filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Denver is not a published metro share. Do not treat the award count as two Front Range lists glued together. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not “cause” $2,900,399,789.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 086 × CO only.

Award rows are not unique households

$2,900,399,789.60 does not measure housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 086 and a CO place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 19,876 awards as a census of housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Colorado federal spending or Department of Housing and Urban Development matched $2,900,399,789.60 and 19,876, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico HUD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Colorado, not a Front Range versus Western Slope split

Place of performance CO is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Denver is not a published metro share. Do not treat the award count as two Front Range lists glued together. This packet does not split $2,900,399,789.60 by city, county, or named facility. 19,876 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Many actions, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,900,399,789.60 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Colorado confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Colorado’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 19,876-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,900,399,789.60.

Citing HUD in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Housing and Urban Development (agency 086) obligated $2,900,399,789.60 on 19,876 awards coded to Colorado. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities.

Prefer Department of Housing and Urban Development in Colorado if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Colorado federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CO. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the 086 parent without the CO filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,900,399,789.60.

A usable footnote names Department of Housing and Urban Development, Colorado, $2,900,399,789.60, and 19,876. The compact headline $2.90 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $145,925 is $2,900,399,789.60 divided by 19,876. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Housing and Urban Development obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov records $2,900,399,789.60 across 19,876 awards with awarding agency 086 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,900,399,789.60.

Is $2,900,399,789.60 a measure of housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities?

No. The packet publishes $2,900,399,789.60 and 19,876 awards for agency 086 inside CO coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this HUD file have 19,876 awards?

That is the award-record count for 086 × CO. Combined with $2,900,399,789.60, the average is about $145,925. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 19,876 is not unique housing units, voucher households, or named public housing authorities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending and Department of Housing and Urban Development are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,900,399,789.60. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.