“While the dressed-up descriptions of opportunity zones boast moving “billions of dollars into low-income communities,” what they actually do is gentrify the very neighborhoods they pretend to revitalize, displacing black and brown working-class people from their homes and further destabilizing already vulnerable areas, all to benefit wealthy developers, like Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.” And Paul Mckee. With the complicity of black elected leaders.
Opportunity zones are just an opportunity for the rich to gentrify poor neighborhoods
The opportunity zone tax break are not fostering the kind of development that poor neighborhoods need.