Tax incentives target poor neighborhoods but leave communities behind

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The development of place-based investment tax incentives such as opportunity zones can be explained as a predictable result of the 'pro-gentrification legal, business and political environment that produced them,' said Michelle D. Layser, a professor of law at Illinois.

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