Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments obligations in Massachusetts

Project-based HAP meeting Massachusetts

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Filtered to Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $3,561,899,237.64 on 2,353 awards. The national 14.195 hub is unfiltered by state. The Massachusetts spending hub is unfiltered by CFDA. This tie is the overlap.

Two thousand three hundred fifty-three awards is a many-contract pattern: HAP assistance often posts numerous awards to properties or agencies rather than one statewide grant. The join does not list developments, Boston versus Springfield splits, or unit counts. Packet facts stop at $3,561,899,237.64, 2,353 awards, MA, and 14.195.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,561,899,237.64 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.195 and MA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Massachusetts against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Housing Assistance Payments is a project-based catalog, distinct from tenant-based vouchers. 2353 awards totaling $3,561,899,237.64 is a many-contract HAP pattern. The about $1.51 million mean is a contract-scale figure. Unit counts and property names are not in the packet.

14.195 is not Housing Choice Vouchers

Housing Assistance Payments (14.195) and Housing Choice Vouchers (a different HUD CFDA) are separate catalogs. Mixing voucher dollars into $3,561,899,237.64 would overstate this cell. Public housing operating funds and HOME investment partnerships likewise sit on other Massachusetts program pages.

Facts here: Massachusetts, CFDA 14.195, $3,561,899,237.64, 2,353 awards. Tenant names, contract expiration dates, and Fair Market Rents are not in the facts. The catalog title names the program family, not a waiting-list length.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,561,899,237.64, 2353 awards, CFDA 14.195, program title Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program, and geography MA/Massachusetts. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 2353 awards into $3,561,899,237.64 is about $1.51 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Confusing Housing Assistance Payments with Housing Choice Vouchers is a common error. This page is HAP, not vouchers. $3,561,899,237.64 on 2,353 awards stays inside 14.195 × MA. Voucher dollars, if any, live on another Massachusetts program page.

Massachusetts as place of performance

MA is the USAspending geography tag. Awards billed to Boston, Worcester, or other in-state locations can share the same code. Awards tagged to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, or Connecticut stay outside $3,561,899,237.64 even when metro areas cross the line.

Massachusetts federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 14.195 is one row on the Massachusetts programs list. $3.56 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MA is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $3,561,899,237.64 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Reading 2,353 awards under $3.56 billion

$3,561,899,237.64 ÷ 2,353 is about $1.51 million per award. That average is a contract-scale HAP figure, not a typical household rent payment and not a median. High award counts pull the mean below formula grants that post a few statewide instruments. The aggregate is net obligations, not 2,353 identical annual renewals.

Treat 2353 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 2353 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,561,899,237.64 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 2353 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program–Massachusetts overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Massachusetts × CFDA 14.195 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,561,899,237.64 / 2353-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 14.195 drops the Massachusetts filter. The Massachusetts spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Massachusetts programs index lists other catalogs beside Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program. All spending ties is the directory of 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 Massachusetts “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,561,899,237.64 on 2353 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Massachusetts.

What the intersection does not prove

A large 14.195 total in Massachusetts does not measure housing quality, and it does not equal cash paid to owners. FEC contribution files do not finance this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Use Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Massachusetts for the overlay, CFDA 14.195 for the national program, Massachusetts federal spending and Massachusetts programs for parent tables, and All spending ties for other joins.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $3,561,899,237.64 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance across 2,353 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay.

Is this the same as Housing Choice Vouchers?

No. This join is CFDA 14.195 (Housing Assistance Payments Program). Voucher catalogs use a different CFDA number and sit on separate pages. The $3,561,899,237.64 total does not include those other cells.

Does 2,353 awards mean 2,353 apartments?

No. The facts report 2,353 awards totaling $3,561,899,237.64. Unit counts are not in the packet. Awards can cover multiple units or multi-year contracts.

What is the average award?

About $1.51 million ($3,561,899,237.64 ÷ 2,353). That mean is not a typical household subsidy and not a median rent.