City spending

Housing and Community Devp.

The city's published checkbook records $1,700,335,926 paid out under this department across 40,512 payment lines and 554 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.

Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$85,176,064

FY2019$94,957,631

FY2020$160,977,331

FY2021$315,235,899

FY2022$365,828,053

FY2023$221,894,167

FY2024$216,348,731

FY2025$137,614,290

FY2026$102,303,760

The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Largest vendors (25 of 554)

BAKERRIPLEY$141,151,367

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE$109,495,108

HOUSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY$57,650,504

HOUSTON AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$49,555,613

TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE$48,318,548

JAMES W TURNER CONSTRUCTION$35,491,240

AMG CITYVIEW APARTMENTS LLC$32,080,106

APV REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000,001

EAST END MAKER HUB SPONSOR LLC$24,615,318

COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$22,097,817

CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF GREATER$22,096,136

FIFTH WARD COMMUN REDEVLP CORP$21,513,825

TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITYCONCERNS$20,877,637

HOUSTON LAND BANK$20,039,861

HOUSTON AREA COMMUNITY SVCES INC$19,824,450

URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY$19,619,640

THE MONTROSE CENTER$19,448,784

BURGHLI HOMES$19,256,623

NHPF CAROLINE CONDUIT LLC$18,656,631

CROSSROADS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP$17,503,587

EDUCATION BASED HOUSING INC.$16,850,000

HAWC ESH LLC$15,850,001

DSW HOMES$15,580,092

AVENUE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$15,528,766

RICHMOND SENIOR VILLAGE LTD$15,500,000

What this does and doesn't show

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.

From the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗.