Department of Housing and Urban Development obligations in Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08)

HUD × MA-08 is an assistance join, not a South Shore unit census

This page is a join: Department of Housing and Urban Development (agency 086) as awarding agency, and Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,787,418,864.10 on 1,094 awards. The join is awarding-agency 086 crossed with an MA-08 location field, not Massachusetts’s entire housing budget and not a named public-housing authority roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 1,094 awards equal 1,094 housing units or 1,094 unique authorities.

USDA rural housing, HHS shelter lines, or HUD-coded awards in MA-07 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 086 and MA-08. Mixing those books into $1,787,418,864.10 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and rental vacancy is not causation. Unit counts and wait-list figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as MA-08 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,787,418,864.10 in a district treasury. Quincy-versus-Brockton folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

1,094 awards behind $1.79 billion

Mean obligation is about $1,633,838.08 if $1,787,418,864.10 were divided evenly across 1,094 lines. That ratio is not a published per-unit subsidy and not a typical PHA grant. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of units, vouchers, or unique authorities. One thousand ninety-four awards is a thick HUD assistance file; it is still a row count, not a unit list.

Formula and competitive housing rows can both appear among the 1,094 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Massachusetts 8th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 1,094 into a map of Massachusetts 8th District housing authorities. The $1,787,418,864.10 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a unit census.

Massachusetts 8th District, not a Boston-metro voucher rollup

Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to MA-07, MA-09, or another Massachusetts district are out even if the city name sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $10,968,461,073.57 across every awarding agency; $1,787,418,864.10 is the Department of Housing and Urban Development slice — about 16.3% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide HUD figure on Massachusetts federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank MA-08 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Massachusetts district cells are other joins. Massachusetts federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Housing and Urban Development dollars to $1,787,418,864.10 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 086 obligations are not HAP checks already mailed

HUD awards often obligate as assistance rows to authorities and draw as housing agencies spend. The $1,787,418,864.10 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of housing-assistance payments mailed and not a Treasury outlay total. A voucher dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 086, MA-08 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Housing and Urban Development is the nationwide agency book without a MA-08 filter. This extract does not split public housing from vouchers, and it does not split project-based from tenant-based aid. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 1,094 awards, agency 086, and Massachusetts 8th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the MA-08 HUD table omits

The extract has no authority names, unit counts, or voucher totals. Facts remain $1,787,418,864.10, 1,094 awards, agency 086, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08), and district parent $10,968,461,073.57. PHA names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 1,094-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the HUD × MA-08 pair lives

Start with Massachusetts 8th District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Housing and Urban Development cell. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the nationwide agency listing. Massachusetts federal spending gives Massachusetts context without a MA-08 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 1,094 awards totaling this cell remain an assistance file, not a housing-unit census. Keep both Department of Housing and Urban Development and Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,787,418,864.10 as cash already paid or as Massachusetts’s entire housing appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much HUD spending is obligated in Massachusetts 8th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,787,418,864.10 in Department of Housing and Urban Development (agency 086) obligations with Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) as place of performance, across 1,094 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $10,968,461,073.57 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 086.

Do 1,094 awards mean 1,094 housing authorities in MA-08?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Housing and Urban Development actions tagged to MA-08. It is not an authority or unit census. Mean obligation of about $1,633,838.08 is a quotient of $1,787,418,864.10 and 1,094, not a per-unit cost.

Does this HUD cell include the MA-07 HUD join?

No. Massachusetts 7th District is a different geography tag. $1,787,418,864.10 is the MA-08 pair only — about 16.3% of the Massachusetts 8th District parent $10,968,461,073.57 by arithmetic. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

Is the MA-08 HUD total already paid as vouchers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,787,418,864.10 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Drawdowns and remaining balances are not published here. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.