Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers obligations in Illinois

HUD 14.871 meeting Illinois geography

The $3,732,201,994 total is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 14.871 (SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS) and Illinois as place of performance. The national 14.871 hub has no Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Three thousand eight hundred sixty-six awards is a many-instrument pattern typical of voucher assistance, which often posts numerous awards to public housing agencies rather than a single statewide block. The join still does not list those agencies, Chicago versus Downstate splits, or household counts. Packet facts stop at dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,732,201,994 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.871 and IL. 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 Illinois against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Chicago housing authorities are the mental model for many readers, yet IL is a statewide tag. 3866 awards totaling $3,732,201,994 can include Chicago, suburban, and downstate PHAs without naming any of them. The about $965,391 mean is an agency-scale figure. It should not be read as rent for one apartment or as a household’s annual subsidy.

Housing Choice Vouchers are not every HUD line

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers is CFDA 14.871. Project-based assistance, public housing operating funds, and other HUD catalogs use different numbers. Mixing those catalogs into $3,732,201,994 would overstate this cell.

Facts on this page: Illinois, CFDA 14.871, $3,732,201,994 obligated, 3,866 awards. Unit counts, waiting-list length, and landlord names are not in the facts. The catalog title describes the program family, not a tenant-level ledger.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,732,201,994, 3866 awards, CFDA 14.871, program title Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and geography IL/Illinois. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 3866 awards into $3,732,201,994 is about $965,391 per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

HUD assistance is a family of catalogs. 14.871 is vouchers. Other HUD numbers cover operating funds, HAP, and block grants. $3,732,201,994 is the voucher × Illinois cell only. Expanding the label to “all HUD in Illinois” would be a different join.

Illinois as a place-of-performance code

IL is the USAspending state tag. An award billed to a Chicago housing authority and an award billed to a downstate agency can both sit inside $3,732,201,994 if both are coded 14.871 and IL. The join does not rank neighborhoods and does not treat Cook County as the whole state.

Statewide Illinois federal spending remains the all-program parent. CFDA 14.871 is one row on the Illinois programs list. $3.73 billion is not Illinois’s total federal spending.

Place of performance IL 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 $3,732,201,994 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

A ~$965,000 mean across 3,866 records

Dividing $3,732,201,994 by 3,866 produces about $965,000 per award. That average is an agency-scale assistance figure, not a typical household voucher and not a median. High award counts pull the mean down relative to programs that post a handful of statewide grants. The aggregate is net obligations; it is not 3,866 identical annual contracts.

Treat 3866 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 3866 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,732,201,994 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 3866 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Illinois overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Illinois × CFDA 14.871 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,732,201,994 / 3866-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 14.871 drops the Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Illinois programs index lists other catalogs beside Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. 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 Illinois “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,732,201,994 on 3866 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Illinois.

What this pair cannot say

A HUD CFDA total in Illinois does not measure housing quality, and it does not equal cash paid to landlords. Campaign-finance tables do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Illinois for the overlay, CFDA 14.871 for the national program, Illinois federal spending and Illinois programs for parent tables, and All spending ties for other joins.

Questions

How much Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $3,732,201,994 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Illinois place of performance across 3,866 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay figure.

Does 3,866 awards mean 3,866 households?

No. The facts report 3,866 awards totaling $3,732,201,994. Voucher programs often award to housing agencies that then serve many households. Household counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this all HUD spending in Illinois?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Other HUD catalogs use other CFDA numbers and appear on separate Illinois program pages.

What is the average award size?

About $965,000 per award ($3,732,201,994 ÷ 3,866). That mean is not a median household subsidy and not a proof of rent paid.