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. Among other findings, the Assessment reports that institutional controls and Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs) stimulated redevelopment of underused sites, and that VCPs, while rooted in environmental concerns, "increasingly play the role of alternative local economic development programs."