{"id":2288,"date":"2019-11-26T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1250940-4486196.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T16:51:52","slug":"how-to-ensure-opportunity-zone-investments-strengthen-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/how-to-ensure-opportunity-zone-investments-strengthen-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ensure Opportunity Zone Investments Strengthen Local Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <br>For two years, investors and neighborhood leaders in cities around the country have responded to economic Opportunity Zones (OZs) with hope and hesitation. The policy, part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, provides<a href=\"https:\/\/ofn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/PDFs\/Opportunity_Zone_fact_sheet.pdf\">\u00a0tax incentives for long-term investments<\/a>\u00a0in low-income census tracts. These incentives are meant to help disinvested neighborhoods, hungry for economic growth,<a href=\"http:\/\/opportunityzones.stanford.edu\/docs\/OpportunityZones-AnalysisofPolicyImplications.pdf\">\u00a0attract new financial opportunities.<\/a>\u00a0Heeding this call, nearly 90 OZ funds have dedicated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsha.org\/resource\/opportunity-zone-fund-directory\/?mod=article_inline\">\u00a0more than $2 billion for investments in OZs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/how_to_ensure_opportunity_zone_investments_strengthen_local_communities\">https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/how_to_ensure_opportunity_zone_investments_strengthen_local_communities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two years, investors and neighborhood leaders in cities around the country have responded to economic Opportunity Zones (OZs) with hope and hesitation. The policy, part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, provides\u00a0tax incentives for long-term investments\u00a0in low-income census tracts. These incentives are meant to help disinvested neighborhoods, hungry for economic growth,\u00a0attract new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}