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Trump's Tax Plan Created Opportunity Zones To Help Low-Income Areas. 2 Years Later, Are They Working

Published August 9, 2019 at 12:20 PM CDT
Rows of houses. (Photo by Maximillian Conacher/Unsplash)
Rows of houses. (Photo by Maximillian Conacher/Unsplash)

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson checks in on that status of opportunity zones with Noah Buhayar (@NBuhayar)of Bloomberg News to learn how they may ultimately do more to enrich developers and fuel gentrification than help the communities they were intended to.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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