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New Hotel or Affordable Housing? Race Is On to Define ‘Opportunity Zones’
Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2018–Ruth Simon, Richard Rubin (subscription)
A new Marriott hotel in the Phoenix area might seem a world apart from an affordable-housing complex in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, but both are poised to benefit from the new “opportunity zone” program created in last year’s federal tax overhaul.