Project-Based Rental Assistance in Massachusetts 8th (MA-08)

The district cut on PBRA

This page exists because two tables meet: catalog 14.195 and congressional district MA-08. $863,039,365 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra) nationwide, not the full $10,968,461,073.57 district book, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split properties or bedroom sizes and does not publish a household denominator. 272 is an action count — modifications and continuations add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. The pair is not a unit census, a landlord roster, or a named-property file.

$863,039,365 divided by 272 is about $3,172,938.84 per award on average. That quotient is two packet facts. It is not a typical HAP payment or a posted per-unit figure. 272 awards is a moderate PBRA file. Properties and households remain unpublished. Do not treat MA-08’s 14.195 cell as a stand-in for every PBRA account in Massachusetts. Use Massachusetts 8th District for the district table without this program filter, CFDA 14.195 for CFDA 14.195 without the MA-08 filter, Massachusetts federal spending for the Massachusetts extract, and All spending ties for other pairs. Those hubs are parents, not addends to $863,039,365.

The PBRA CFDA line

USAspending titles CFDA 14.195 as Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra). Crossing that catalog with Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) place of performance produced $863,039,365. The national 14.195 hub does not require MA-08. The district hub does not require PBRA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 272 awards. The packet does not split properties or bedroom sizes and does not publish a household denominator.

Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) did not generate $863,039,365 merely by existing as a geography. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 14.195 × MA-08 only. It is not a unit census, a landlord roster, or a named-property file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients. FEC contribution tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Reading place of performance MA-08

Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) here is a USAspending place-of-performance field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MA-08 while later activity occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Massachusetts districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 14.195. Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Massachusetts. Sister Massachusetts districts remain separate joins even when they reuse CFDA 14.195. Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) is not Massachusetts 5th (Title I) or Massachusetts 7th (NIDDK research) on this harvest.

USAspending obligation math on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $863,039,365 is that kind of sum for Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra) inside MA-08 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without rewriting this join into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same CFDA rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $863,039,365 as given.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 272-row PBRA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 272 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 272 is not a count of units, properties, or households. 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 ($3,172,938.84) is a concentration statistic, not a typical HAP payment or a posted per-unit figure.

Citing $863,039,365 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra) (CFDA 14.195) obligated $863,039,365 on 272 awards coded to Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08). Name Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra) and Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) together. Keep the obligation word. If Massachusetts 8th District or CFDA 14.195 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a unit census, a landlord roster, or a named-property file. 7.9% of $10,968,461,073.57 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score. Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers on California 34th uses CFDA 14.871, a tenant-based HUD line, not this 14.195 cell.

Row count versus dollar concentration

272 awards is a moderate PBRA file. Properties and households remain unpublished. A large row count makes a project 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 $3,172,938.84) and the district share (7.9% of $10,968,461,073.57) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Massachusetts 8th District and CFDA 14.195 if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much PBRA spending is coded to Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08)?

USAspending.gov lists $863,039,365 in Project-Based Rental Assistance (Pbra) obligations across 272 awards with place of performance in Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08). CFDA 14.195 × MA-08 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.9% of the district’s published total ($10,968,461,073.57). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $3,172,938.84, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $863,039,365 include every PBRA project in MA-08?

The packet publishes one CFDA rollup. The packet does not split properties or bedroom sizes and does not publish a household denominator. $863,039,365 is the combined obligation sum for CFDA 14.195 inside MA-08 coding. This page will not invent a project pie or name contractors. Open CFDA 14.195 and Massachusetts 8th District to inspect parent tables. 272 remains an action count, not a count of units, properties, or households.

Is $863,039,365 cash already paid in Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08)?

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 $863,039,365 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts 8th District (MA-08) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 272 awards. Prefer the live district and program hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $3,172,938.84 not a typical award?

The average is $863,039,365 divided by 272 awards, about $3,172,938.84. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.