Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments obligations in Minnesota

What the 14.195–Minnesota join is

CFDA 14.195 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS PROGRAM. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, the obligation sum is $880,649,849.14 on 1,835 awards. The national HAP hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $880,649,849.14 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of project-based units in Minneapolis or Duluth.

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 the Twin Cities from Greater Minnesota, or count assisted units. Packet facts stop at $880,649,849.14, 1,835 awards, MN, and 14.195. Correlation is not causation.

14.195 is not tenant-based HCV in Minnesota

Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) is a different HUD catalog. Mixing tenant-based vouchers into $880,649,849.14 would invent a broader rental-assistance total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 14.195, $880,649,849.14, 1,835 awards. Contract rents and HAP payment dates are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Housing Assistance Payments, not a claim about Minnesota’s affordable-housing shortage. Dividing $880,649,849.14 by 1,835 yields about $479,918 per award—a contract-administrator scale smaller than a ten-award block because the count is high. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,835 is not a count of buildings.

Minnesota geography on the HAP tag

MN is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Wisconsin, Iowa, or the Dakotas stay outside $880,649,849.14 even when a metro approaches those borders. The code does not convert $880.6 million into a property map.

Minnesota federal spending is the all-program parent. 14.195 is one row on Minnesota programs. $880.6 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Minnesota for the filtered table, CFDA 14.195 for 14.195 without a Minnesota filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $880,649,849.14.

Reading 1,835 awards under $880.6 million

$880,649,849.14 ÷ 1,835 is about $479,918 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 1,835 as a record count, not as 1,835 finished renovations.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $880,649,849.14 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,835 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $880,649,849.14 without changing the join key of 14.195 and MN.

What the HAP–Minnesota pair does not prove

A large 14.195 total tagged to Minnesota 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 $880,649,849.14 on 1,835 awards for Housing Assistance Payments in Minnesota.

Keep both sides of the join: Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments and Minnesota, obligations only. Do not annualize $880,649,849.14 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,835 as a unit census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a real-estate story.

Using the HAP–Minnesota overlay

The overlay target is the Minnesota × CFDA 14.195 table. Open Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program in Minnesota when you want the same $880,649,849.14 / 1,835-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 14.195 drops the Minnesota filter. Minnesota federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Minnesota 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 Minnesota won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 14.195 plus MN. Obligations of $880,649,849.14 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Section 8 HAP funding is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending records $880,649,849.14 in CFDA 14.195 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 1,835 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Housing Choice Vouchers. Keep Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program and Minnesota together when citing $880,649,849.14.

Is this the same as Housing Choice Vouchers in Minnesota?

No. Housing Assistance Payments are CFDA 14.195. Housing Choice Vouchers use CFDA 14.871. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $880,649,849.14. 1,835 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 1,835 awards mean 1,835 buildings?

1,835 is a USAspending award-record count, not a building or unit census. The implied mean is about $479,918 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $880,649,849.14 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program–Minnesota table.

Is $880.6 million Minnesota’s full federal housing spend?

No. $880,649,849.14 is only the 14.195 × Minnesota cell. Other HUD catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 14.195 is not limited to Minnesota. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.195 × MN pair.