This report from HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research gives the results of a study designed to explore state regulatory and economic initiatives to redevelop previously used sites, particularly brownfields or contaminated sites. The study, which was just placed online last week, is focused on how such state initiatives encourage the economic revitalization of depressed neighborhoods....

As many cities have begin to grapple with their vast areas of brownfields that dot the urban landscape, the federal government has begun to step in and provide various financial assistance in order to assist with the redevelopment of abandoned, idled and underused industrial and commercial facilities. This website, provided by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, provides...