Department of Housing and Urban Development federal obligations in Virginia (agency 086)

What the HUD–Virginia join is

Awarding agency 086 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $5,011,322,253 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Housing and Urban Development’s nationwide budget, not Virginia’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Northern-Virginia housing-authority folklore and statewide rental-assistance stories may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a unit-by-unit housing census.

25,024 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. A long row list can still mix large and small instruments. The join does not rank Virginia against other states and does not name public-housing agencies inside the extract.

Open Department of Housing and Urban Development in Virginia for the filtered table, Virginia federal spending for the next hub, Department of Housing and Urban Development for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A long HUD award list under one Virginia filter

Dividing $5,011,322,253 by 25,024 yields about $200,261 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical housing-authority grant. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a count of housing units. Authority names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Northern-virginia housing-authority folklore and statewide rental-assistance stories is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 086 without a Virginia overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Housing and Urban Development page aggregates 086 without requiring VA geography. The Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Virginia place of performance. Only Department of Housing and Urban Development in Virginia applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 25,024 awards and $5,011,322,253.

Place of performance in Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list VA while later work occurs in Maryland or D.C. HUD awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in this total even if the property manager’s office sits in Arlington. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $5,011,322,253 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 25,024 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Virginia–HUD overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large HUD total in Virginia does not mean the agency caused Virginia’s housing mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between population and housing awards is expected; it is not a finding about affordability or waste.

Keep $5,011,322,253 labeled as agency 086 obligations with Virginia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Virginia–HUD pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 086 (Department of Housing and Urban Development), Virginia place of performance, $5,011,322,253 in obligations, and 25,024 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $5,011,322,253 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $200,261 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical housing-authority grant.

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Virginia, Virginia federal spending, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $5,011,322,253 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Northern Virginia-versus-Hampton Roads folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Unique recipients are not published here. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has HUD obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $5,011,322,253 in obligations for awarding agency 086 with Virginia place of performance, covering 25,024 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Housing and Urban Development’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so many HUD awards in Virginia relative to other agencies?

The extract lists 25,024 award actions totaling $5,011,322,253. Average obligation per award is about $200,261, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical housing-authority grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Northern Virginia-only HUD total?

No. $5,011,322,253 and 25,024 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads or Richmond. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live HUD–Virginia table?

Department of Housing and Urban Development in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows agency 086 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.