Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher funding in Massachusetts
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) obligations tagged to Massachusetts total $4,620,977,063 on USAspending.gov across 6,507 awards. That row count is in the SSI-file neighborhood, not the four-row PBGC neighborhood on the same state tag. Housing assistance posts as many PHA-level actions; pension termination insurance posted as four large vehicles. The join is HUD 14.871 plus an MA place-of-performance tag, not a count of voucher households. Six thousand five hundred seven HCV actions are a PHA-scale grain on an MA tag, opposite the four-row PBGC cell on the same state.
Key figures
- Massachusetts HCV (CFDA 14.871): $4,620,977,063 on 6,507 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $710,200 per award; that is not a typical monthly voucher.
- 6,507 is an action count, not households or units.
- Public housing and project-based assistance sit outside this join.
- The join is 14.871 × MA, not an affordability ranking.
Thousands of voucher actions on a Massachusetts tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS whose geography is Massachusetts (MA). Six thousand five hundred seven awards remain. They sum to $4,620,977,063. Housing Choice Vouchers are administered by public housing agencies. USAspending can record many PHA-level assistance actions rather than one row per household.
The implied mean is about $710,200 per award. That is PHA-vehicle size in this extract, not a typical monthly voucher. Unique households, unique landlords, and unique PHAs are unpublished.
Massachusetts federal spending is every CFDA on MA. CFDA 14.871 is HCV nationwide. Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts is the overlap. Massachusetts programs and All spending ties are the indexes. Pension termination insurance on 86.001 is a different Massachusetts pair.
Public housing agencies administer vouchers. Unique households and unique units are unpublished. 6,507 is an action count.
Boston is not broken out. $4,620,977,063 is statewide Massachusetts.
Public housing and project-based Section 8 are other Catalog numbers
Public-housing operating funds, project-based rental assistance, and Continuum of Care homeless programs use other CFDA numbers. They are not inside $4,620,977,063. A complete Massachusetts housing-assistance story would need those joins separately.
Place-of-performance can follow the PHA. An MA tag does not prove every voucher unit sits in Massachusetts; portability can move households. Conversely, Massachusetts units can sit on another state’s extract if the administering PHA is coded elsewhere.
Do not treat 6,507 as 6,507 Boston apartments. Action counts are not unit counts.
Portability can move a household while the administering PHA stays coded to MA — or the reverse. Place of performance is not a unit map.
Project-based Section 8 and public-housing operating funds use other Catalog numbers.
Obligations versus rent paid
Quote $4,620,977,063 as USAspending obligations for CFDA 14.871 in Massachusetts. Do not quote it as rent already paid to landlords. HAP disbursements are other ledgers.
No fiscal year is in the facts. Do not attach one. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.
Housing assistance payments to landlords are a different ledger than this obligation join. Quote USAspending for $4,620,977,063 as obligations.
Boston is not broken out
This packet does not split 6,507 awards or $4,620,977,063 by PHA or city. A Boston story and a western-Massachusetts story would need a different table. The extract stays statewide.
Do not rank Massachusetts housing affordability from this cell. Rents and waitlists are unpublished. Correlation with PBGC insurance is not causation.
Gateway cities and Cape Cod share MA. A PHA story needs a different table.
Citation line
Quote USAspending.gov: Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (CFDA 14.871) obligated $4,620,977,063 on 6,507 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name vouchers and Massachusetts together.
The overlay Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts is the live pair.
Vouchers are not PBGC insurance
CFDA 86.001 on Massachusetts is four large pension-insurance vehicles. CFDA 14.871 is 6,507 voucher actions. Same MA tag, different programs.
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts programs lists both cells.
Massachusetts HCV’s 6,507 actions sit beside four PBGC insurance vehicles on the same MA tag. Rent subsidies are not pension termination insurance. $4,620,977,063 stays on CFDA 14.871. Unique households are unpublished. Boston is not broken out. Portability can move units across state lines while the PHA tag stays MA. Quote USAspending obligations, not HAP checks already paid.
Follow Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts for the live 14.871 table. $4,620,977,063 and 6,507 awards are the citation pair. Unique households stay unpublished. PBGC insurance remains CFDA 86.001. Boston is not a subtotal. Do not invent a unit count or a fiscal year.
Questions
- How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Massachusetts?
- USAspending.gov shows $4,620,977,063 across 6,507 awards for CFDA 14.871 tagged to Massachusetts. That is an obligation join, not a count of voucher households.
- Does 6,507 awards mean 6,507 Massachusetts vouchers?
- No. Six thousand five hundred seven is an award-action count, often at the PHA level. Unique households and unique units are not published in this packet.
- Does this include public housing in Massachusetts?
- No. Public housing uses other CFDA numbers. This join is only 14.871, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers.
- Where is the live Massachusetts HCV table?
- Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Massachusetts. See also Massachusetts federal spending, Massachusetts programs, CFDA 14.871, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.