Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers obligations in New Jersey

Voucher catalog meeting New Jersey

CFDA 14.871 (SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS) plus New Jersey place of performance produces $2,871,053,188 on 4,474 awards. The national 14.871 hub is unfiltered by state. The New Jersey spending hub is unfiltered by CFDA. This tie is the overlap.

Four thousand four hundred seventy-four awards is a many-PHA pattern: voucher assistance often posts numerous awards to public housing agencies. The join does not list those agencies, split Newark from South Jersey, or count households. Packet facts are $2,871,053,188, 4,474 awards, NJ, and 14.871.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,871,053,188 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.871 and NJ. 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 New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

4474 awards totaling $2,871,053,188 is a high-count voucher cell. The about $641,720 mean is pulled down by that many instruments. Portability across the Hudson does not move NY-coded awards into this NJ total. Households are not the same as award records.

14.871 versus other HUD lines

Project-based Housing Assistance Payments and public housing operating funds use other CFDA numbers. Mixing them into $2,871,053,188 would overstate this cell. School-lunch and transit catalogs in New Jersey are unrelated joins.

Facts here: New Jersey, CFDA 14.871, $2,871,053,188, 4,474 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 $2,871,053,188, 4474 awards, CFDA 14.871, program title Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 4474 awards into $2,871,053,188 is about $641,720 per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

New Jersey’s HAP-equivalent, if any, would use another HUD number. This page is 14.871. $2,871,053,188 on 4474 awards is vouchers × NJ. Transit and lunch totals are unrelated.

New Jersey as a geography code

NJ is the USAspending place-of-performance tag. Awards billed to Newark, Jersey City, or other in-state PHAs can share the code. Awards tagged to New York or Pennsylvania stay outside $2,871,053,188 even when a household uses a portability voucher across the line.

New Jersey federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 14.871 is one row on the New Jersey programs list. $2.87 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance NJ 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 $2,871,053,188 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

A ~$642,000 mean across 4,474 records

$2,871,053,188 ÷ 4,474 is about $642,000 per award. A four-digit award count pulls the mean well 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 4,474 identical annual contracts.

Treat 4474 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 4474 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,871,053,188 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 4474 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–New Jersey overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the New Jersey × CFDA 14.871 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,871,053,188 / 4474-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 14.871 drops the New Jersey filter. The New Jersey spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The New Jersey 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 New Jersey “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,871,053,188 on 4474 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in New Jersey.

What this pair cannot claim

A large 14.871 total in New Jersey 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 New Jersey, CFDA 14.871, New Jersey federal spending, New Jersey programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $2,871,053,188 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 4,474 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay.

Does 4,474 awards mean 4,474 households?

No. The facts report 4,474 awards totaling $2,871,053,188. 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 New Jersey?

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

What is the average award?

About $642,000 ($2,871,053,188 ÷ 4,474). That mean is not a typical household subsidy.