Through research, technical assistance and outreach, this project, also known as the brownfields revitalization anti-displacement strategies program (brads), will serve as a national resource and…

Through research, technical assistance and outreach, this project, also known as the brownfields revitalization anti-displacement strategies program (brads), will serve as a national resource and technical assistance hub. IT will provide research-driven guidance and training in developing and applying equity-centered and economically inclusive anti-displacement strategies. The grant recipient will equip local leaders and communities with brownfields with tools to address displacement and gentrification as part of their brownfields redevelopment practices and programs. This agreement will provide funding under the infrastructure investment and jobs act for the university of massachusetts dartmouth to conduct eligible technical assistance-related activities as authorized by cercla 104(k)(7).activities:this cooperative agreement provides financial assistance to the university of massachusetts dartmouth (umass) to implement its own project to conduct research and provide technical assistance to advance the knowledge in displacement and anti-displacement policies, ultimately supporting an equitable distribution of brownfields redevelopment benefits. Umass's project will 1) conduct research on gentrification issues and anti-displacement policies relevant to brownfields communities and local and regional brownfields programs, 2) develop guidance on anti-displacement strategies that is useful to those engaged in brownfields redevelopment at a variety of decision-making levels and takes local context into account, and 3) provide direct technical assistance and capacity building on anti-displacement gentrification practices to brownfields communities of practice, prioritizing those serving and working with underserved and overburdened communities.subrecipient:there will be one subaward to the university of louisville in the amount of $164,670, and a second subaward to florida state university in the amount of $134,999. The CO-principal investigators, lauren heberle from university of louisville and kelly kinahan from florida state university, and their teams will contribute 35% effort towards each of tasks 1 and 2, 20% towards task 3, and 10% towards task 5 as outlined in the workplan.outcomes:through its research, umass will produce the following deliverables: review of anti-displacement policies relevant to communities of brownfields practitioners, review of indicators of past, current and future displacement that ultimately communities can build on to create their own typologies of displacement, and review of gentrification/displacement patterns associated with the most common reuse of brownfields sites. Guidance and education documents based on this research will be CO-created with pilot communities with input from EPA regional offices and tab providers. Umass will assess practitioner knowledge and experience through a content analysis of 2022/2023 brownfields grant applications displacement question responses to inform the development of training and education materials to address existing knowledge gaps. Umass will also conduct an assessment of community-specific gentrification knowledge and experience with anti-displacement efforts in three pilot communities. Using the results of the community assessments, umass will collaborate with the selected pilot communities to develop community-specific reports (3) that will include recommendations that they can then implement or advocate for within their respective programs. Umass will use this process and the resulting recommendations to develop more generalized guidance documents for other communities to use in the future. The results of the research will be summarized and customized to two target audiences/groups of beneficiaries: i) the general public and II) policymakers/decision-makers within local and state governments. Dissemination of research findings will occur through publication of materials such as gentrification and anti-displacement policies 101 (a written