Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers obligations in Texas

What the 14.871–Texas join is

CFDA 14.871 is titled SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS. Crossed with Texas place of performance, obligations sum to $4,805,443,619 on 9,161 awards. The national 14.871 hub includes other states. Texas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $4,805,443,619 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of voucher households in Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio.

9,161 awards is a thick PHA-level book: denser than project-based HAP cells in some states. Housing Choice Vouchers often post as many authority-level instruments rather than one statewide line. The join does not name PHAs, list landlords, or count occupied units. Packet facts stop at $4,805,443,619, 9,161 awards, TX, and 14.871.

14.871 is not project-based HAP or public housing operating

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments (CFDA 14.195) and the Public Housing Operating Fund (CFDA 14.850) are different HUD catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $4,805,443,619 would invent a broader housing total than this cell contains. Facts available: Texas, CFDA 14.871, $4,805,443,619, 9,161 awards. Occupancy rates and wait-list counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, not a ranking of PHA need. Dividing $4,805,443,619 by 9,161 yields about $524,555 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical monthly HAP. Unique recipients are unpublished. 9,161 is not a count of apartments.

Texas geography on the voucher tag

TX is the place-of-performance code. A voucher award can still appear as records tagged to Austin, Houston, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Louisiana stay outside $4,805,443,619 even when a household lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $4.81 billion into a unit map.

Texas federal spending is the all-program parent. 14.871 is one row on Texas programs. $4.81 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Texas for the filtered table, CFDA 14.871 for 14.871 without a Texas filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,805,443,619.

Reading 9,161 awards under $4.81 billion

$4,805,443,619 ÷ 9,161 is about $524,555 per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical voucher HAP and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 9,161 as a record count, not as 9,161 finished households.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $4,805,443,619 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 9,161 rows are continuations, corrections, or annual ACC instruments. Later ingests can restate $4,805,443,619 without changing the join key of 14.871 and TX.

What the HCV–Texas pair does not prove

A large 14.871 total tagged to Texas does not measure whether families were housed, and it does not equal services delivered. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $4,805,443,619 on 9,161 awards for Housing Choice Vouchers in Texas.

Keep both sides of the join: Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Texas, obligations only. Do not annualize $4,805,443,619 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 9,161 as a unit census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a housing-quality story.

Using the 14.871–Texas overlay

The overlay target is the Texas × CFDA 14.871 table. Open Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Texas when you want the same $4,805,443,619 / 9,161-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 14.871 drops the Texas filter. Texas federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Texas 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 Texas won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 14.871 plus TX. Obligations of $4,805,443,619 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending records $4,805,443,619 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Texas place of performance on 9,161 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not project-based HAP. Keep Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Texas together when citing $4,805,443,619.

Are 9,161 awards 9,161 voucher households?

9,161 is an award-record count, not a household census. PHAs can post many instruments. The mean is about $524,555 per award, a ratio, not a typical monthly HAP. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is this Texas’s total HUD housing spending?

No. This join is CFDA 14.871 only. Project-based HAP and the Public Housing Operating Fund appear on separate Texas program pages. Nationwide 14.871 is not limited to Texas. Obligations of $4,805,443,619 are not outlays.

Where is the live 14.871–Texas table?

The overlay is Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Texas. CFDA 14.871 drops the state filter. Texas federal spending and Texas programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.