The Economic Innovation Group’s (EIG) Opportunity Zones webpage is a great place to start when understanding how this tool can support communities. The most recent research report, titled “Opportunity Zones 2.0: Guidance for Governors and Mayors”,...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides many resources to help communities throughout the country navigate OZs. Official OZ census tracts are mapped and formally identified through HUD. HUD provides resources for...

This webpage is also managed by HUD, and promotes OZs in their Exchange network. This resource provides past insights for OZs, and demonstrates how OZ investments can work with existing HUD programs.

The Urban Institute's Opportunity Zones 2026 Selection Tool was created to help States and local governments understand where strategic Opportunity Zone Census Tracts are located. This resource identifies which Opportunity Zone Census Tracts would...

This toolkit from Accelerator for Amerca provides a guide for local leaders to assess, identify, and advocate for their communities’ high-priority tracts, including OZ Prioritization Dataset and Rubric spreadsheets with step-by-step instructions for...

The U.S. Department and Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service jointly issues Opportunity Zone guidance on April 6, 2026. This guidance was required to be released per the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and identifies all eligible census tracts...

The U.S. Department of Treasury publishes official OZ guidance through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS houses these official documents on their website, and provides a plethora of information for all stages of the OZ investment process.

This guide from Novogradac presents strategies Qualified Opportunity Zone Census Tract selections. This is a great resource for local governments who want to obtain favorable updated Opportunity Zone designations.

This article from FBT Gibbons identifies four common Opportunity Zone misconceptions, followed by an outlook for the 2026 Opportunity Zones landscape. This is a great resource to familiarize yourself with Opportunity Zones.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's provides a graphic outline of the differences between OZ 1.0 and OZ 2.0.

During this installment of the CDFA Tribal Financing Webinar Series, experts explain New Markets Tax Credits and Opportunity Zones—two incentives developers can consider when financing tribal projects.

During the CDFA Advocacy Briefing: First Look at Opportunity Zones 2.0, experts discuss the early news on Opportunity Zones 2.0. This updated and reformed program has the potential to drive significant private sector investment throughout the...

During this two-day interactive event designed to equip diverse housing developers with critical insights into affordable housing finance, policy, and capital strategies, industry experts, policymakers, and practitioners come together to explore the...

During the CDFA Advocacy Briefing: Opportunity Zones 2.0, experts discuss the potential for new OZ legislation and explore what a future Opportunity Zones 2.0 program could look like.

This guide from Bricker Graydon outlines the array of tools with which Ohio economic development practitioners can intervene to stimulate or induce development to occur — or occur sooner than market forces sometimes allow — in their communities....

Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC, delivered on significant objectives in 2021, and the firm is pleased to share its results with stakeholders in this Annual Impact Report. In 2021, the firm added 9 team members, strengthened its national voice in...

U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC) and U.S. Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and Mike Kelly (R-PA) introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill reforming Opportunity Zones, the tax incentive for individuals who reinvest unrealized...

This resource offers a section-by-section summary of the bipartisan, bicameral bill to reform opportunity zones introduced by Senators Booker, Scott, and Kelly. This legislation would reinstating and expanding the reporting requirements, ending...

Senators Booker and Scott and Representatives Kind and Kelly, along with Senators Warner, Young, and Van Hollen, and Representatives Sewell, Walorski, and Kildee, propose a series of improvements to the Opportunity Zones policy to further their...

This GAO report describes the process for designating census tracts as Opportunity Zones and compares characteristics of designated and non-designated tracts; describes Qualified Opportunity Funds' experiences with and states' views on the tax...

A Playbook for Scaling Latino-Owned Businesses is designed to support the scaling and continued growth of Latino-owned businesses by offering entrepreneur support organizations, financial institutions, and other stakeholders actions they can take to...

Recognizing the urgency of the pandemic and related crises, on June 7, 2021, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York approached the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance to write a report about the current landscape of capital sources for community investment...

This announcement from the IRS confirms that the boundaries of the Designated QOZs were established at the time they were designated and are not subject to change because of the 2020 Census.

A new report from economists at the University of California Berkeley provides the first real evidence of OZ investment captured in 2019. Approximately $18.9 billion of aggregate OZ investments occurred that year representing nearly 2,500...

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Redlands, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Adelanto, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Colton, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Barstow, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the Town of Apple Valley, California. It was produced through collaboration between the Town, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Fontana, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Grand Terrace, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Highland, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Hesperia, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Loma Linda, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Ontario, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Needles, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Rialto, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the County of San Bernardino, California. It was produced through collaboration between San Bernardino County and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Upland, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of San Bernardino, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Victorville, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the City of Yucaipa, California. It was produced through collaboration between the City, San Bernardino County, and Local Equity LLC.

During this installment of the CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series, we explored how investing in food-centered redevelopment can restore local food systems infrastructure, catalyze additional neighborhood development, and protect healthy,...

There are over 300 Superfund National Priorities List sites and thousands of Superfund removal sites located in or partially in Opportunity Zones. This webinar discussed Opportunity Zone tax benefits in the context of redeveloping Superfund sites...

Opportunity Zones are a powerful way to encourage revitalization in economically distressed communities. Redevelopment of current or former Superfund sites may qualify for Opportunity Zone tax benefits. View this EPA fact sheet for more information.

The authors of this study examine the impact of OZs on residential real estate by exploiting two datasets: a proprietary real estate dataset and census-tract demographics data between 2010 and 2019. They find that tracts with higher poverty and...

This is an Opportunity Zones prospectus for Brattleboro, Vermont. It was authored in partnership with the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation.

This is an Opportunity Zone Investment Guide for the City of Winooski, Vermont.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for the city of Lyndon, Vermont.

This is an Opportunity Zone Prospectus for Newport, Vermont.