Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania and Housing Choice Vouchers as a pair

CFDA 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. Crossed with Pennsylvania place of performance, obligations sum to $2,374,050,540 on 4,871 awards. The national 14.871 hub includes other states. Pennsylvania’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,374,050,540 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of voucher households in Pennsylvania.

4,871 awards is a thick voucher file with thousands of rows against a large sum. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $2,374,050,540, 4,871 awards, PA, and 14.871. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Pennsylvania together when reading $2,374,050,540.

14.871 is not the Public Housing Operating Fund

Public Housing Operating Fund (CFDA 14.850) in Pennsylvania is a different HUD catalog in this harvest. Mixing 14.871 and 14.850 would invent a combined housing book the packet never computed. Mixing those series into $2,374,050,540 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Pennsylvania, CFDA 14.871, $2,374,050,540, 4,871 awards. PHA names, unit counts, and tenant names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, not a ranking of Pennsylvania housing authorities. Dividing $2,374,050,540 by 4,871 yields about $487,385 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,871 is not a household, unit, or PHA census.

Pennsylvania geography, not a PHA roster

PA is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Harrisburg can share the tag. Awards coded to Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia stay outside $2,374,050,540 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $2.37 billion into a tract-level voucher map.

Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-program parent. 14.871 is one row on Pennsylvania programs. $2.37 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania for the filtered table, CFDA 14.871 for the catalog without a Pennsylvania filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,374,050,540.

Thousands of voucher rows, still obligations

$2,374,050,540 ÷ 4,871 is about $487,385 per award. That average is a mid-six-figure mean on a thick file, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 4,871 as a record count, not as 4,871 unique households or 4,871 named PHAs.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 4,871 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,374,050,540 without changing the join key of 14.871 and PA. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,374,050,540 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers plus Pennsylvania. Do not treat $2,374,050,540 as an outlay series.

What the Pennsylvania HCV join does not prove

A large 14.871 total tagged to Pennsylvania does not measure whether rents fell in Philadelphia, and it does not equal rent already paid to landlords. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,374,050,540 on 4,871 awards for Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania.

Keep both sides of the join: Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Pennsylvania, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,374,050,540 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 4,871 as a household, unit, or PHA census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a waiting-list narrative. Cite Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers together with Pennsylvania whenever you reuse $2,374,050,540.

Citing Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania

The overlay target is the Pennsylvania × CFDA 14.871 table. Open Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Pennsylvania when you want the same $2,374,050,540 / 4,871-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 14.871 drops the Pennsylvania filter. Pennsylvania federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Pennsylvania programs lists other catalogs beside 14.871. 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 Pennsylvania won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 14.871 plus PA. Obligations of $2,374,050,540 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.871 × PA pair. 4,871 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census. Connecticut's Housing Choice Voucher overlay in this harvest is $1,559,135,579 across 2,562 awards. That is a different state key. Do not add Connecticut into $2,374,050,540. A thick 4,871-row Pennsylvania file yields about $487,384 per award as a ratio, not a typical HAP invoice. Philadelphia sitting near New Jersey does not pull NJ-coded awards into this cell.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending records $2,374,050,540 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Pennsylvania place of performance on 4,871 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Pennsylvania together when citing $2,374,050,540. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 4,871 awards mean 4,871 Pennsylvania voucher households?

4,871 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household, unit, or PHA census. The implied mean is about $487,385 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,871 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Pennsylvania's total federal housing spending?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Public Housing Operating Fund (14.850) and other HUD catalogs appear on separate Pennsylvania program pages. Nationwide 14.871 is not limited to Pennsylvania. Obligations of $2,374,050,540 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Pennsylvania table.

Has this voucher money already been paid as rent?

No. $2,374,050,540 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 14.871 × PA pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.