Brownfield redevelopment and affordable housing: A case study of New Jersey

Greenberg, Michael; Craighill, Peyton; Mayer, Henry; Zukin, Cliff; Wells, Jan

doi:10.1080/10511482.2001.9521417

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“…Just over one-third (38%) of the respondents were willing to bid on the deed restriction scenario. Although the market loss is less than in Greenberg and colleagues' study (14%), the results emphasizes the pervasiveness and consistency of the stigma associated with brownfields [15]. Given that, it is likely that buyers will become more willing to purchase brownfield housing as they become more educated about the risks and how they are best minimized.…”

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Recycling brownfields? The influence of on-site contamination on home buyers

Winson-Geideman¹

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 94

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This research uses contingent valuation (CV) to assess home buyer perceptions regarding housing built on formerly contaminated sites. Respondents are questioned about the underlying stigma associated with past contamination and willingness to purchase a home built on a brownfield. Discounts and market loss in Chicago, Illinois, a metropolitan area characterized by a large number of brownfields and an active housing market, are identified and analyzed.

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confidence: 63%

Recycling brownfields? The influence of on-site contamination on home buyers

Winson-Geideman¹

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 94

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“…Furthermore, contrary to the assertion that no one would want to live on a former brownfield site, a New Jersey survey (Greenberg et al, 2001) found that 14 percent of respondents were both planning to move during the next five years and would be willing to live in housing on top of cleaned-up brownfield sites. In other words, community preferences for future use need to be determined rather than assumed and, when measured, they appear to favor open space, recreation, and community facilities rather than commercial uses.…”

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End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

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This article discusses creating a sustainably protective engineered and human management system in perpetuity for sites with long-lived radiological and chemical hazards. This is essential at this time because the federal government is evaluating its property as assets and attempting to reduce its holdings, while seeking to assure that health and ecosystems are not put at risk. To assist those who have a stake in the remediation, management, and stewardship of these and analogous privately owned sites, this article discusses current end-state planning by reviewing the federal government's accelerated efforts to reduce its footprint and how those efforts relate to sustainability. The article also provides a list of questions organized around six elements of risk management and primary, secondary, and tertiary disease and injury prevention. Throughout the article, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is used as an example of an organization that seeks to reduce its footprint, manage its budget, and be a steward of the sites that it is responsible for. INTRODUCTIONThere is a widely held expectation supported by some laws and precedents that federal agencies such as the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD), just like other government and private organizations, will not leave materials on site that will endanger people and ecosystems. One way of meeting that expectation is to choose a future land use that minimizes exposure. But a conservative land-use plan surrounded by a buffer zone may not be appropriate at many sites where the contaminated land is otherwise a valuable asset.Whatever the land-use choices, the responsible organization needs an unambiguous mechanism that ties its land-use choices to risk through a sustainably protective system that can be operated as long as it is needed, in perpetuity if necessary. Such a sustainable plan rests on a sound remediation and monitoring program and then requires both engineered systems and human operations.A sustainable system is particularly critical during a period when the current owners and managers of federal government property are evaluating all federal properties as assets and where in some case they are shrinking their footprint by turning over, easing, and selling sites to other federal agencies, states, local governments, and private organizations (Baxa, 2004;Bush, 2004 The goal of efficient asset management is challenging at sites where contamination by long-lived radiological and chemical agents is a legacy (Burger et al., 2003b. At these sites, it is incumbent on site managers; natural resource damage committees; other federal, state, and local government officials; and other stakeholders to understand the risk implications while assessing these assets, whether it leads to reducing the footprint, or, alternatively, to keeping the land but optimizing/modifying its potential uses, or plans for its management (for example, considering different remediation approaches).With asset management as context, the objectives of this article are (1...

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“…In a New Jersey study of 100 brownfields, for example, most were near residential areas, and their redevelopment into housing could provide 6 percent to 29 percent of the area's fiveyear housing demand (Greenberg et al 2001). The United States has over 500,000 brownfields, many of which could be remediated for housing or other types of redevelopment (Haughey 2001).…”

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Crime, New housing, and housing incivilities in a first‐ring suburb: Multilevel relationships across time

Brown

Perkins

Brown

2004

Housing Policy Debate

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Concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology are integrated to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. For existing housing, we use a model to test whether housing incivilities, such as litter and unkempt lawns, are associated with later crime. For new housing, we test whether a new subdivision on a former brownfield creates spillover reductions in nearby crime and incivilities.Police-reported crime rates were highest for residences near the brownfield and lowest for those farther away. After the subdivision was constructed, this linear decline disappeared, reflecting less crime adjacent to the new subdivision, but also more crime farther away. A multilevel analysis shows that incivilities, particularly litter and unkempt lawns on the block, predict unexpected increases in crime. Both brownfield redevelopment and reductions in incivilities may be important ways to improve declining suburban areas.

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Brownfield redevelopment and affordable housing: A case study of New Jersey

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Recycling brownfields? The influence of on-site contamination on home buyers

Recycling brownfields? The influence of on-site contamination on home buyers

End-state land uses, sustainably protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship

Crime, New housing, and housing incivilities in a first‐ring suburb: Multilevel relationships across time

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