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OZ 2.0 Was Supposed to Be More Rural. Early Nominations Say Otherwise.
OpportunityZones.com finds that 37.2% of 1,566 proposed tracts in the first 12 states publishing OZ 2.0 nominations are rural. That compares with 44.8% of those states' 2018 zones drawn from low-income tracts.
Its analysis attributes the difference largely to selection decisions rather than a shrinking rural eligibility pool. Texas contributes nearly 40% of the early nominations, but seven of the twelve states show a reduced rural preference. The article cautions that this early sample cannot yet establish the composition of the final nationwide map.
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