Really looking forward to talking about neighborhood redevelopment, Opportunity Zones, and work with Barrett Linburg and David Robinson Jr of Weston Urban tomorrow at Neighborhood Economics. Thanks to Kevindoylejones and Rosa Lee for pulling together an amazing barn-raising! Stay tuned

Excited to speak in San Antonio on Tues morning at the Neighborhood Economics Conference

Speaking with Ross Baird from Blueprint and David Robinson Jr from Weston Urban

Talking about revitalizing neighborhoods through strategic investment and the transformative role of OZ legislation

The Vice President paid a visit to an Opportunity Zone development today

Extending the legislation means more projects like this

As tax policy is being written (right now) let your congressman know the importance of adding the transparency/reporting requirements and the…

We've invested in ~25 Opportunity Zone projects, with $3B in total capital to distressed areas in the US. We have invested from VA (with the leadership of Mark Warner), to the Carolinas (with leadership of Tim Scott) to Texas. We need both an extension and impact reporting

Was great to join Jimmy Atkinson to share what we are seeing in capital markets, and what we've learned investing $200M in Opportunity Zones over the past four years. Enjoy!

If you have a short or long-term capital gain from selling something last year

Whether it was a business, partnership interest, Apple stock, crypto, or anything else

You owe taxes on April 15th

However, if you invest in an Opportunity Zone Fund, you can defer those taxes until…

Why should you care about #OpportunityZones right now?

Because high-quality multi-year evidence is telling us that OZs have produced:
✅Large-scale $ and geographic reach
✅Large development effects
✅positive spillovers
✅⬆️housing supply
✅⬆️housing values
✅stable rents

There has been a major—and almost entirely unnoticed—advance in the research on the most significant place-based incentive on the books. That’s right: it’s time to update your priors on Opportunity Zones!

Opportunity Zone Legislation sparked new investment in 3,800+ low income communities in 50 states

The communities averaged below 80th percentile for poverty, median household income, & unemployment

Investment came from 21,000+ individual and 4,000 corporate investors

More ⬇️

The program works, and at the same time it can be improved if the bipartisan bill introduced by Tim Scott, Cory Booker, Mike Kelly for Congress, and Ron Kind is passed.

Please show them and their colleagues how important this program is by expressing your support. 2/2

There’s a growing consensus that we need to build more housing throughout the US. #OpportunityZones are one of the most important tools to facilitate that in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. 1/

The focus on SVB's collapse shouldn't obscure the role it played supporting an emerging generation of entrepreneurs. 

Here's why: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…