Opportunity Zone Communities May Require Additional Investments

Route Fifty: The new federal opportunity zone program could turn into a boon for disadvantaged communities, but much depends on funding oversight and additional investments in downtrodden places.

“I don’t want us to think somehow that this is the silver bullet that will solve the problem,” U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Flint, Michigan, said Tuesday during a roundtable discussion about the program. “It is potentially a good resource, but it only can work if it’s coupled with other human investments and human capital.”

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