Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments obligations in Maryland

What the 14.195–Maryland join is

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Crossed with Maryland place of performance, the obligation sum is $1,083,117,565 on 1,241 awards. The national HAP hub includes other states. Maryland’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,083,117,565 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of project-based units in Baltimore or Prince George’s County.

A many-award pattern fits project-based HAP: owners and contract administrators often appear as separate assistance records. The join does not name those owners, split Baltimore City from the Eastern Shore, or count assisted units. Packet facts stop at $1,083,117,565, 1,241 awards, MD, and 14.195. Correlation is not causation.

14.195 is not tenant-based HCV in Maryland

Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) is a different HUD catalog. Mixing tenant-based vouchers into $1,083,117,565 would invent a broader rental-assistance total than this cell contains. Facts available: Maryland, CFDA 14.195, $1,083,117,565, 1,241 awards. Contract rents and HAP payment dates are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Housing Assistance Payments, not a claim about Maryland’s affordable-housing shortage. Dividing $1,083,117,565 by 1,241 yields about $872,778 per award—a contract-administrator scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,241 is not a count of buildings.

Maryland geography on the HAP tag

MD is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Baltimore, Silver Spring, Annapolis, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or the District of Columbia stay outside $1,083,117,565 even when a metro crosses those lines. The code does not convert $1.08 billion into a property map.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. 14.195 is one row on Maryland programs. $1.08 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Maryland for the filtered table, CFDA 14.195 for 14.195 without a Maryland filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,083,117,565.

Reading 1,241 awards under $1.08 billion

$1,083,117,565 ÷ 1,241 is about $872,778 per award. That average is a contract scale, not a typical tenant rent share. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 1,241 as a record count, not as 1,241 finished renovations.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,083,117,565 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,241 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,083,117,565 without changing the join key of 14.195 and MD.

What the HAP–Maryland pair does not prove

A large 14.195 total tagged to Maryland does not measure whether projects stayed affordable, and it does not equal checks cashed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $1,083,117,565 on 1,241 awards for Housing Assistance Payments in Maryland.

Keep both sides of the join: Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments and Maryland, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,083,117,565 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,241 as a unit census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a real-estate story.

Using the HAP–Maryland overlay

The overlay target is the Maryland × CFDA 14.195 table. Open Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Maryland when you want the same $1,083,117,565 / 1,241-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 14.195 drops the Maryland filter. Maryland federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Maryland programs lists other catalogs beside HAP. 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 Maryland won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 14.195 plus MD. Obligations of $1,083,117,565 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $1,083,117,565 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Maryland place of performance on 1,241 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Housing Choice Vouchers. Keep Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program and Maryland together when citing $1,083,117,565.

Is this the same as Housing Choice Vouchers in Maryland?

No. Housing Assistance Payments are CFDA 14.195. Housing Choice Vouchers use CFDA 14.871. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $1,083,117,565. 1,241 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 1,241 awards mean 1,241 buildings?

1,241 is a USAspending award-record count, not a building or unit census. The implied mean is about $872,778 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $1,083,117,565 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program–Maryland table.

Is $1.08 billion Maryland’s full federal housing spend?

No. $1,083,117,565 is only the 14.195 × Maryland cell. Other HUD catalogs appear on separate Maryland program pages. Nationwide 14.195 is not limited to Maryland. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.195 × MD pair.