Tamara Dubowitz, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Robin Beckman, Andrea S Richardson, Gerald P Hunter, Rachel M Burns, Jonathan Cantor, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Rebecca Collins
INTRODUCTION: Investments in historically oppressed neighborhoods through food retail, housing, and commercial development are hypothesized to improve residents' health, nutrition, and perceptions of their neighborhood as a place to live. Although place-based development (e.g., housing, retail, business assistance) is happening in many communities, there is little evidence on the long-term correlates of multiple investments such as health and nutrition among residents. METHODS: We conducted a quasi-experimental longitudinal study using a cohort of randomly sampled households in two low-income, predominantly African American neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, PA, with surveys assessing residents' food insecurity, perception of their neighborhood as a place to live, perception of access to healthy foods, and dietary outcomes in 2011 and seven years later (2018), with an interim assessment in 2014...
November 14, 2023: American Journal of Preventive Medicine