Promoting Health Through the Social Environment: Housing

Search Strategy

Searches for mixed-income housing developments and tenant-based rental assistance programs were conducted in 10 computerized databases: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCO Information Services’ Academic Search™ Elite, HUD User Bibliographic Database, MarciveWeb Catalogue of U.S. Government Publications, ProQuest Dissertations, ProQuest General Research Databases, PsychInfo, Public Affairs Information Services, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Sociological Abstracts. Internet resources were examined, as were reference lists of reviewed articles and referrals from specialists in the field. To be included in the reviews of effectiveness, studies had to:

• Document an evaluation of a mixed-income housing development or a tenant-based rental assistance program for families within the United States
• Be published in English between 1965 and 2000
• Compare outcomes among groups of people exposed to the intervention with outcomes among groups of people not exposed or less exposed to the intervention (whether the comparison was concurrent between groups or before-and-after within groups); and measure outcomes defined by the analytic framework for the intervention