Opportunity Zones

These Low-Income Communities Should Prepare for an Influx of Cash

Local leaders have additional policy options they can layer atop Opportunity Zone investments to achieve their desirable policy outcomes from developments—such as maintaining affordable housing, creating jobs for residents, supporting green building, and so on.

Alexander Casey • Apr 02 2019

Sale Prices Surge in Neighborhoods With New Tax Break

Sale prices ticked up sharply in some of the nation’s lowest-income and highest-poverty communities near the end of last year—but mostly in the neighborhoods now eligible for newly created tax breaks.

Alexander Casey • Mar 18 2019