The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends tenant-based rental assistance programs on the basis of sufficient evidence that such assistance reduces exposure to crimes against person and property and neighborhood social disorder. The Task Force was unable to determine the effectiveness of such programs on housing hazards, youth risk behaviors, and psychological and physical morbidity, because too few studies of adequate design and execution reported these outcomes. This recommendation appears in “The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health?”
Zaza S, Briss PA, Harris KW, and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The Social Environment [Internet]. In: The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health? New York: Oxford University Press; 2005. p. 329–84. Available from http://www.thecommunityguide.org/social/Social-Environment.pdf