Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers obligations in Maryland

Voucher catalog meeting Maryland

CFDA 14.871 (SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS) plus Maryland place of performance produces $2,223,014,519 on 1,546 awards. The national 14.871 hub is unfiltered by state. The Maryland spending hub is unfiltered by CFDA. This tie is the overlap.

One thousand five hundred forty-six awards is a many-PHA pattern: voucher assistance often posts numerous awards to public housing agencies. The join does not list those agencies, split Baltimore from the suburbs, or count households. Packet facts are $2,223,014,519, 1,546 awards, MD, and 14.871.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,223,014,519 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.871 and MD. 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 Maryland against other states on need, performance, or politics.

1546 awards totaling $2,223,014,519 (about $1.44 million mean) is HCV tagged Maryland. PBGC insurance, military medical research, and 1332 waivers are other Maryland catalogs. Portability into Virginia or D.C. does not import those states’ awards.

14.871 versus other Maryland catalogs

Pension Plan Termination Insurance, military medical research, and 1332 waivers in Maryland use other CFDA numbers. Mixing any of them into $2,223,014,519 would overstate this cell. Project-based HAP is a different HUD catalog as well.

Facts here: Maryland, CFDA 14.871, $2,223,014,519, 1,546 awards. Payment standards, landlord names, and waiting-list length are not in the facts. The catalog title names vouchers, not a rent-burden study.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,223,014,519, 1546 awards, CFDA 14.871, program title Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and geography MD/Maryland. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 1546 awards into $2,223,014,519 is about $1.44 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Maryland’s other large catalogs in this slice are insurance, military medical R&D, and 1332 waivers. $2,223,014,519 is vouchers. 1546 awards at about $1.44 million mean is the HCV silhouette, not those other programs.

Maryland as a geography code

MD is the USAspending place-of-performance tag. Awards billed to Baltimore, Prince George’s County, or other in-state PHAs can share the code. Awards tagged to Virginia, Delaware, or the District of Columbia stay outside $2,223,014,519 even when a household uses a portability voucher across the line.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 14.871 is one row on the Maryland programs list. $2.22 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MD 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 $2,223,014,519 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

A ~$1.44 million mean across 1,546 records

$2,223,014,519 ÷ 1,546 is about $1.44 million per award. A four-digit award count pulls the mean below statewide formula grants. The average is an agency-scale assistance figure, not a typical household voucher and not a median rent. The aggregate is net obligations, not 1,546 identical annual contracts.

Treat 1546 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 1546 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,223,014,519 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 1546 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Maryland overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Maryland × CFDA 14.871 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,223,014,519 / 1546-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 14.871 drops the Maryland filter. The Maryland spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Maryland 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 Maryland “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,223,014,519 on 1546 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Maryland.

What this pair cannot claim

A large 14.871 total in Maryland does not measure housing quality, and it does not equal cash paid to landlords. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Maryland, CFDA 14.871, Maryland federal spending, Maryland programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $2,223,014,519 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Maryland place of performance across 1,546 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay.

Does 1,546 awards mean 1,546 households?

No. The facts report 1,546 awards totaling $2,223,014,519. 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 Maryland?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Other HUD catalogs appear on separate Maryland program pages.

What is the average award?

About $1.44 million ($2,223,014,519 ÷ 1,546). That mean is not a typical household subsidy.