[CPEO-BIF] Washington "State helps turn brownfields into affordable housing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State helps turn brownfields into affordable housing
The Healthy Housing Remediation Program takes the cost of cleanup out of the development equation.

By BOB WARREN, Washington state Department of Ecology
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (WA)
September 27, 2018


The state departments of Ecology and Commerce are partnering to work with local governments and communities across the state to promote redevelopment of former contaminated cleanup sites into much needed affordable housing. 

For more than 30 years, Ecology has been cleaning up contaminated properties — nearly 7,200 completed cleanups thus far. Removing toxic threats helps protect human health and the environment, and opens the door to put properties back into use. 

Ecology is developing the Healthy Housing Remediation Program, which aims to make it easier for affordable housing developers to redevelop once-contaminated properties into housing that communities can afford. 


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For the entire article, see
http://www.djc.com/news/en/12114941.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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