Strategies to Minimize Displacement
As costs rise and it becomes more expensive to live in a community, lower income residents and small businesses are often forced to move. Communities can be proactive and put strategies in place to minimize the risk of displacement. These strategies take time, resources and political will to implement, and they are most effective if put into place before displacement is already occurring.
Brownfields represent an opportunity to make communities healthier and bring new amenities, however their redevelopment could also exacerbate affordability and displacement concerns. Strong, early community engagement in the brownfields reuse process presents an opportunity to have discussions with the community about how to minimize displacement through the cleanup and reuse process.
The following fact sheets provide information and additional resources on several strategies and tools that brownfields stakeholders can utilize to minimize displacement alongside brownfields redevelopment.
- Weatherization Assistance (pdf)
- Asistencia para la Climatización (pdf)
- Down Payment and Closing Cost Assistance Programs (pdf)
- Programas de Asistencia para el Pago Anticipado y los Costos de Cierre (pdf)
- Community Benefits Agreements (pdf)
- Acuerdos de beneficios comunitarios (pdf)
- Community Land Trusts (pdf)
- Fideicomisos de tierras comunitarias (pdf)
- Inclusionary Zoning (pdf)
- Zonificación inclusiva (pdf)
- Small Business Preservation (PDF)
- Programas de preservación de pequeñas empresas (pdf)
- Tax Abatement (pdf)
- Reducción de impuestos (pdf)