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Public Housing Operating Fund obligations in New York

USAspending.gov records $7,574,336,192.24 in Public Housing Operating Fund obligations (CFDA 14.850) with place of performance in New York, across 1,942 awards. One thousand nine hundred forty-two instruments against $7.57 billion produce a mean of about $3,900,276 per award. This page joins HUD catalog 14.850 to the NY geography tag. It is not a unit census and not cash already paid.

Key figures

  • CFDA 14.850 shows $7,574,336,192.24 in New York obligations on 1,942 awards.
  • The mean is about $3,900,276 per award.
  • The catalog is the Public Housing Operating Fund, not vouchers.
  • New York is a place-of-performance tag, not a unit census.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

What the 14.850–New York join is

CFDA 14.850 is titled PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND. Crossed with New York place of performance, obligations sum to $7,574,336,192.24 on 1,942 awards. The national 14.850 hub includes other states. New York’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $7,574,336,192.24 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of public-housing units in New York City, Buffalo, or Rochester.

1,942 awards is a mid-thickness HUD book: denser than a five-row formula grant, thinner than some voucher cells. Operating-fund assistance often posts as many PHA-level instruments rather than one statewide line. The join does not name housing authorities, list developments, or count occupied units. Packet facts stop at $7,574,336,192.24, 1,942 awards, NY, and 14.850.

14.850 is not Housing Choice Vouchers

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) and Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments (CFDA 14.195) are different HUD catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $7,574,336,192.24 would invent a broader housing total than this cell contains. Capital Fund and other public-housing catalogs use other numbers still. Facts available: New York, CFDA 14.850, $7,574,336,192.24, 1,942 awards. Occupancy rates and wait-list counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Public Housing Operating Fund, not a ranking of PHA need. Dividing $7,574,336,192.24 by 1,942 yields about $3,900,276 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical monthly operating subsidy per unit. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,942 is not a count of developments.

New York geography on the operating-fund tag

NY is the place-of-performance code. An operating-fund award can still appear as records tagged to New York City, Albany, or another in-state address. Awards coded to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Connecticut stay outside $7,574,336,192.24 even when a household lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $7.57 billion into a development map.

New York federal spending is the all-program parent. 14.850 is one row on New York programs. $7.57 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Public Housing Operating Fund in New York for the filtered table, CFDA 14.850 for 14.850 without a New York filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $7,574,336,192.24.

Reading 1,942 awards under $7.57 billion

$7,574,336,192.24 ÷ 1,942 is about $3,900,276 per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical PHA operating budget and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 1,942 as a record count, not as 1,942 finished properties.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $7,574,336,192.24 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,942 rows are continuations, corrections, or annual operating subsidies. Later ingests can restate $7,574,336,192.24 without changing the join key of 14.850 and NY.

What the operating-fund–New York pair does not prove

A large 14.850 total tagged to New York does not measure whether buildings were maintained, and it does not equal services delivered. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $7,574,336,192.24 on 1,942 awards for the Public Housing Operating Fund in New York.

Keep both sides of the join: Public Housing Operating Fund and New York, obligations only. Do not annualize $7,574,336,192.24 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,942 as a unit census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a housing-quality story.

Using the 14.850–New York overlay

The overlay target is the New York × CFDA 14.850 table. Open Public Housing Operating Fund in New York when you want the same $7,574,336,192.24 / 1,942-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 14.850 drops the New York filter. New York federal spending drops the CFDA filter. New York programs lists other catalogs beside 14.850. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that New York won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 14.850 plus NY. Obligations of $7,574,336,192.24 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Public Housing Operating Fund money is obligated in New York?
USAspending records $7,574,336,192.24 in CFDA 14.850 obligations with New York place of performance on 1,942 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Housing Choice Vouchers. Keep Public Housing Operating Fund and New York together when citing $7,574,336,192.24.
Are 1,942 awards 1,942 housing authorities?
1,942 is an award-record count, not a PHA census. Operating-fund assistance can post many instruments per authority. The mean is about $3,900,276 per award, a ratio, not a typical unit subsidy. Unique recipients are unpublished.
Is this New York’s total HUD housing spending?
No. This join is CFDA 14.850 only. Housing Choice Vouchers and Section 8 HAP catalogs appear on separate New York program pages. Nationwide 14.850 is not limited to New York. Obligations of $7,574,336,192.24 are not outlays.
Where is the live 14.850–New York table?
The overlay is Public Housing Operating Fund in New York. CFDA 14.850 drops the state filter. New York federal spending and New York programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.