Scenario:
Christina is a senior program manager at the Springfield Housing Department. She knows a great deal about all aspects of housing programs and policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels of government. However, she would like a thorough review of several recent federal-level evaluations of relevant grant and pilot programs managed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, several recent academic studies on equity issues in housing markets and the efficacy of public assistance programs in the area of housing, as well as several white papers produced by a low-income housing advocacy organization. Christina directs one of her junior staff members, Morty, to collect and provide her with a review of these recent research findings in this policy domain.
Discussion Questions: Given that Christina has directed Morty to summarize some specific reports to keep her abreast of recent research findings, would you consider this a literature review? If you were Morty, how would you go about summarizing the requested material? Would you do so by theme? By research authorship? Some other approach?
