Housing Assistance by State

We added up the public housing units, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, and total assisted households reported on every one of the 3,779 authority pages in this directory, grouped by state. It’s the only place that turns this directory’s own PHA-by-PHA figures into a state-level scoreboard.

900,533Public housing units nationwide

2,812,397Section 8 vouchers nationwide

3,712,930Total assisted households

All 54 States & Territories, Ranked by Assisted Households

Sorted by total assisted households (public housing units plus Section 8 vouchers). Click any state to see its full list of housing authorities.

#	State	PHAs	Public housing units	Section 8 vouchers	Total assisted households
1	New York	159	171,614	297,342	468,956
2	California	96	23,204	369,815	393,019
3	Texas	379	42,998	183,544	226,542
4	Pennsylvania	85	56,451	102,787	159,238
5	Illinois	106	46,149	112,085	158,234
6	Florida	97	24,478	131,552	156,030
7	Ohio	75	33,354	107,047	140,401
8	Massachusetts	130	30,101	102,391	132,492
9	New Jersey	99	28,427	90,352	118,779
10	Georgia	178	28,723	71,997	100,720
11	North Carolina	123	24,362	73,360	97,722
12	Puerto Rico	75	54,046	34,261	88,307
13	Michigan	126	17,827	67,559	85,386
14	Louisiana	153	19,857	59,931	79,788
15	Washington	32	11,189	67,728	78,917
16	Virginia	41	13,133	61,522	74,655
17	Alabama	142	29,702	41,554	71,256
18	Maryland	30	10,776	59,815	70,591
19	Missouri	123	16,737	48,947	65,684
20	Tennessee	85	20,081	42,979	63,060
21	Kentucky	119	21,252	40,589	61,841
22	Connecticut	50	12,561	46,981	59,542
23	Indiana	54	10,657	46,237	56,894
24	Minnesota	135	15,352	39,402	54,754
25	Oregon	23	2,471	43,635	46,106
26	Colorado	59	6,896	38,585	45,481
27	Wisconsin	115	9,834	34,981	44,815
28	South Carolina	42	11,830	30,771	42,601
29	Oklahoma	104	10,048	29,418	39,466
30	Arkansas	127	10,420	28,724	39,144
31	Mississippi	52	8,767	28,730	37,497
32	Arizona	23	4,232	26,753	30,985
33	Iowa	63	3,948	24,437	28,385
34	District of Columbia	2	8,752	16,823	25,575
35	West Virginia	32	6,427	16,463	22,890
36	Kansas	102	7,863	14,928	22,791
37	Nebraska	105	6,647	14,642	21,289
38	Rhode Island	28	9,210	11,590	20,800
39	Nevada	3	2,376	17,752	20,128
40	New Mexico	26	3,761	15,993	19,754
41	Hawaii	6	4,667	14,587	19,254
42	Maine	24	2,589	15,810	18,399
43	New Hampshire	20	3,472	12,119	15,591
44	Utah	19	1,128	14,194	15,322
45	North Dakota	26	1,291	10,312	11,603
46	Vermont	9	447	9,457	9,904
47	Montana	12	1,418	7,729	9,147
48	South Dakota	35	1,498	7,404	8,902
49	Idaho	10	610	8,077	8,687
50	Delaware	6	1,854	6,098	7,952
51	Alaska	2	1,237	4,997	6,234
52	U.S. Virgin Islands	2	2,421	2,167	4,588
53	Guam	2	750	2,675	3,425
54	Wyoming	8	638	2,769	3,407

About This Data

Every figure on this page is a sum of numbers already published on this site’s own per-authority pages (see, for example, any New York listing), which are themselves drawn from HUD’s public housing authority datasets. We don’t call any external API to build this table — it’s a rollup of the same 3,779 PHA records used everywhere else on the site, so the state totals and the individual authority pages always agree with each other.

“Public housing units” counts HUD-owned and PHA-operated units. “Section 8 vouchers” counts Housing Choice Vouchers administered by that state’s authorities, which let tenants rent from a private landlord who accepts the voucher. A state with a high voucher count relative to its unit count typically relies more on the private rental market to house assisted families; a state with more units relies more on PHA-owned developments.