Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers obligations in Washington

Voucher catalog × Washington State

CFDA 14.871 (SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS) plus Washington place of performance produces $2,542,251,014.48 on 2,474 awards. The national 14.871 hub is unfiltered by state. The Washington spending hub is unfiltered by CFDA. This tie is the overlap.

Two thousand four hundred seventy-four awards is a many-PHA pattern. The join does not list those agencies, split Seattle from Spokane, or count households. Packet facts are $2,542,251,014.48, 2,474 awards, WA, and 14.871.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,542,251,014.48 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 14.871 and WA. 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 Washington against other states on need, performance, or politics.

2474 awards totaling $2,542,251,014.48 (about $1.03 million mean) is HCV tagged WA—Washington State. D.C. is a different geography. Research, CRF, and transit capital in Washington are other catalogs. Households ≠ award rows.

14.871 versus other Washington catalogs

Allergy and infectious-diseases research, Coronavirus Relief Fund, and transit capital grants in Washington use other CFDA numbers. Mixing any of them into $2,542,251,014.48 would overstate this cell. Project-based HAP is a different HUD catalog as well.

Facts here: Washington, CFDA 14.871, $2,542,251,014.48, 2,474 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 $2,542,251,014.48, 2474 awards, CFDA 14.871, program title Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and geography WA/Washington. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 2474 awards into $2,542,251,014.48 is about $1.03 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Washington CRF and transit-capital cells are other programs. $2,542,251,014.48 is 14.871 × WA. High award counts are normal for voucher catalogs and do not mean 2474 households.

WA means Washington State

WA is the USAspending place-of-performance tag for Washington State. Awards billed to Seattle, Tacoma, or other in-state PHAs can share the code. Awards tagged to Oregon, Idaho, or the District of Columbia stay outside $2,542,251,014.48.

Washington federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 14.871 is one row on the Washington programs list. $2.54 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance WA 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 $2,542,251,014.48 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

A ~$1.03 million mean across 2,474 records

$2,542,251,014.48 ÷ 2,474 is about $1.03 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 2,474 identical annual contracts.

Treat 2474 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 2474 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,542,251,014.48 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 2474 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers–Washington overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Washington × CFDA 14.871 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,542,251,014.48 / 2474-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 14.871 drops the Washington filter. The Washington spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Washington 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 Washington “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,542,251,014.48 on 2474 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in Washington.

What this pair cannot claim

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

Questions

How much Housing Choice Voucher funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $2,542,251,014.48 in CFDA 14.871 obligations with Washington place of performance across 2,474 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not HUD’s national total and not an outlay.

Is this Washington, D.C.?

No. The state code is WA (Washington State). The $2,542,251,014.48 figure is the 14.871 × WA cell.

Does 2,474 awards mean 2,474 households?

No. The facts report 2,474 awards totaling $2,542,251,014.48. Voucher programs often award to housing agencies that then serve many households. Household counts are not in the packet facts.

What is the average award?

About $1.03 million ($2,542,251,014.48 ÷ 2,474). That mean is not a typical household subsidy.