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Redeveloping Brownfields: How States and Localities Use CDBG Funds
Redeveloping Brownfields: How States and Localities Use CDBG Funds
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America’s cities are in their best shape in years. In most cases, fiscal conditions have improved, crime is down, and the center city is becoming more vital. Yet, urban revitalization
remains a work in progress, and the restoration of urban brownfields to productive use will be
critical in completing the job.
The Clinton Administration has made it a priority to help communities clean up and redevelop brownfields, and the Department ofHousing and Urban Development has taken a
number of important steps in response to this need. Our new Brownfields Economic
Development Initiative (BEDI) specifically addresses this priority as part of a locality’s
economic redevelopment strategy. We are a full partner in the Administration’s “Showcase
Communities” initiative, provide technical assistance to State and local governments, and have
streamlined our community development regulations to make them more friendly to brownfields
redevelopment.
In addition, the Department has launched an active research program to better understand how brownfields impede revitalization of our Nation’s distressed communities. This will help us
develop ways to overcome and eliminate these impediments. Our research examines a range of
concerns: how the intertwined issues of environmental risk and neighborhood economic distress
affect redevelopment; how the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program supports
local brownfields revitalization efforts; the feasibility of using environmental insurance; and
innovative financing approaches for brownfields cleanup and redevelopment.
This report, Redeveloping Brownfields: How States and Localities Use CDBG Funds
provides important insights into how State and local governments use the CDBG program to
tackle brownfields redevelopment challenges in their communities. The report illustrates the
extent to which CDBG is a sound and adaptable resource for addressing the complexity of local
brownfields redevelopment. It also offers suggestions, based primarily on comments from
program users, on how the Department can be more responsive to local needs.
remains a work in progress, and the restoration of urban brownfields to productive use will be
critical in completing the job.
The Clinton Administration has made it a priority to help communities clean up and redevelop brownfields, and the Department ofHousing and Urban Development has taken a
number of important steps in response to this need. Our new Brownfields Economic
Development Initiative (BEDI) specifically addresses this priority as part of a locality’s
economic redevelopment strategy. We are a full partner in the Administration’s “Showcase
Communities” initiative, provide technical assistance to State and local governments, and have
streamlined our community development regulations to make them more friendly to brownfields
redevelopment.
In addition, the Department has launched an active research program to better understand how brownfields impede revitalization of our Nation’s distressed communities. This will help us
develop ways to overcome and eliminate these impediments. Our research examines a range of
concerns: how the intertwined issues of environmental risk and neighborhood economic distress
affect redevelopment; how the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program supports
local brownfields revitalization efforts; the feasibility of using environmental insurance; and
innovative financing approaches for brownfields cleanup and redevelopment.
This report, Redeveloping Brownfields: How States and Localities Use CDBG Funds
provides important insights into how State and local governments use the CDBG program to
tackle brownfields redevelopment challenges in their communities. The report illustrates the
extent to which CDBG is a sound and adaptable resource for addressing the complexity of local
brownfields redevelopment. It also offers suggestions, based primarily on comments from
program users, on how the Department can be more responsive to local needs.
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