This layer is published from the Department of Community Affairs to show Federally designated Opportunity Zones.The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have designated Opportunity Zones in 18 States, including 260 census tracts in the State of Georgia. Economic investment in these areas, which are some of the most distressed communities in the country, may now be eligible for preferential tax treatment. These new Federal Opportunity Zones are intended to facilitate investment in areas where poverty rates are greater than 20 percent.“This designation will enable some of our state’s struggling communities to attract much-needed private sector investment,” said DCA Commissioner Christopher Nunn. “By giving an economic ‘shot in the arm’ to these communities, the goal is to boost investment where it’s most urgently needed.”Georgia’s 260 zones, located in 83 counties, represent some of the most concentrated poverty in the state and are found in both rural and metropolitan areas, with approximately 60% rural and 40% urban. Qualified Opportunity Zones retain this designation for 10 years. Investors can defer tax on any prior gains until no later than December 31, 2026, so long as the gain is reinvested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund, an investment vehicle organized to make investments in Qualified Opportunity Zones. In addition, if the investor holds the investment in the Opportunity Fund for at least ten years, the investor would be eligible for an increase in its basis equal to the fair market value of the investment on the date that it is sold.Treasury and the IRS plan to issue additional information on Qualified Opportunity Funds to address the certification of Opportunity Funds, which are required to have at least 90 percent of fund assets invested in Opportunity Zones. DCA will communicate additional information about the specifics of the program as it is released by Treasury. Interactive map of designated Opportunity Zones.Additional information on Opportunity Zones.View a full list of Georgia’s designated census tracts, by county.Click here for FAQs.About the Georgia Department of Community AffairsThe Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) partners with communities to create a climate of success for Georgia’s families and businesses through community and economic development, local government assistance, and safe and affordable housing. Using state and federal resources, DCA helps communities spur private job creation, implement planning, develop downtowns, generate affordable housing solutions, and promote volunteerism. DCA also helps qualified low- and moderate-income Georgians buy homes, rent housing, and prevent foreclosure and homelessness. For more information, visit www.dca.ga.gov.

A Federal Opportunity Zone is an economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment. Localities qualify as Federal Opportunity Zones if they have been nominated for that designation by the state and that nomination has been certified by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury via his delegation of authority to the Internal Revenue Service. Designated Federal Opportunity Zones may not be added or altered at this time.DCA Federal Zone informationThis layer is used in map(s): Federal Opportunity Zones

Opportunity zone created by 2017 federal Investing in Opportunity Act. Opportunity Zones were created to revitalize economically distressed communities using private investments rather than taxpayer dollars. To stimulate private participation, taxpayers who invest in Qualified Opportunity Zones are eligible to benefit from capital gains tax incentives available exclusively through this new legislation.

Qualified Opportunity Zones are a new community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This program encourages new, long-term investment in property or businesses in specific areas around the City through federal tax incentives for investors. To take advantage of the program, investors must reinvest new capital gains into Qualified Opportunity Funds which are spent in Qualified Opportunity Zones.https://www.columbus.gov/development/economic-development/Opportunity-Zone-Programhttps://opportunityzones.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/ooz/home

The Opportunity Zone program is a nationwide initiative administered by the U.S. Treasury created under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The program provides federal tax incentives for investment in distressed communities over the next 10 years. Areas designated as Opportunity Zones will be able to reap the benefits of capital gains to help redevelop undeserved communities. The state was entitled to nominate 149 low-income census tracts to be Opportunity Zones. Once the U.S. Treasury has approved the state’s Opportunity Zone nominations, the designation will be effective for 10 years. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will administer the program with support from the Maryland Department of Commerce.Source: https://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/BusinessEconomy/MD_IncentiveZones/FeatureServer/15

Recognizing that many small, rural downtown areas have experienced varying levels of economic distress, DCA worked with the Georgia General Assembly to secure passage of a bill calling for the development of “Rural Zones.” The establishment of up to 10 zones per year will enable businesses and investors to obtain tax credits for qualified activities occurring within designated Rural Zones. DCA, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, will receive applications and designate zones each year to provide an incentive for job creation and private investment in the designated locations.Rural Zones informationThis designation shall last for five consecutive years upon approval of the Commissioners.This layer is used in map(s): Federal Opportunity Zones and Job Tax Credit Incentives

The federal tax bill, passed in December 2017, allows investors to defer or eliminate capital gains on investments made in “Opportunity Zones”. These zones must be designated by the governor in each state from a set of eligible Census tracts. Governors must select no more than 25 percent of eligible tracts statewide.Federal criteria for determining eligible areas states that tracts must either have poverty rates above 20 percent or median family income below 80 percent of either the statewide or metropolitan area income. 3,516 Census tracts in California qualify under this criteria, spread across 54 counties. Of these, the governor must select tracts as Opportunity Zones in California.The state’s final recommendation is provided on the map. Within the San Francisco Bay Region, 530 tracts were eligible under the federal criteria, of which 107 were designated by the governor. Of the 107 designated tracts, 94 tracts were Metropolitan Transportation Commission Communities of Concern (now Equity Priority Communities).

The City of Dallas is home to 15 federally-designated Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones (OZ) can drive capital to support new businesses and investments in the targeted census tracts by providing Opportunity Zone investors with a deferral of capital gains taxes, among other tax benefits. Unlike other incentive programs, there are no monetary caps on Opportunity Zones investments, making the program flexible and scalable to meet market needs. All investments made to qualify for favorable tax treatment in the Opportunity Zone must be made by an Opportunity Zone fund that has been certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury. This map is used in the following App: https://dallasgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=52cbde4dc6224af6bf208666ee5d3465Information correct as of June 29,2021.

The Opportunity Zone program is a nationwide initiative administered by the U.S. Treasury created under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The program provides federal tax incentives for investment in distressed communities over the next 10 years. Areas designated as Opportunity Zones will be able to reap the benefits of capital gains to help redevelop undeserved communities. The state was entitled to nominate 149 low-income census tracts to be Opportunity Zones. Once the U.S. Treasury has approved the state’s Opportunity Zone nominations, the designation will be effective for 10 years. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will administer the program with support from the Maryland Department of Commerce.Source: https://geodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/BusinessEconomy/MD_IncentiveZones/FeatureServer/15

The City of Dallas is home to 15 federally-designated Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones (OZ) can drive capital to support new businesses and investments in the targeted census tracts by providing Opportunity Zone investors with a deferral of capital gains taxes, among other tax benefits. Unlike other incentive programs, there are no monetary caps on Opportunity Zones investments, making the program flexible and scalable to meet market needs. All investments made to qualify for favorable tax treatment in the Opportunity Zone must be made by an Opportunity Zone fund that has been certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury. Information correct as of June 29,2021.This application uses this map: https://dallasgis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=25e27e2b5978431dbefb83e4f2eb7742

The National Zoning Atlas is a collaborative project digitizing, demystifying, & democratizing ~30,000 U.S. zoning codes. It was founded by Cornell University professor Sara Bronin and has involved over 300 zoning and geospatial analysts. WHAT: Zoning laws, adopted by perhaps 30,000 local governments across the country, dictate much of what can be built in the United States. The National Zoning Atlas is helping us better understand these sometimes-opaque but incredibly influential laws by depicting their key attributes in an online, user-friendly map. As a federated academic enterprise, the National Zoning Atlas encompasses several disciplines. It is a legal research project, as it delves deeply into the regulatory frameworks that dictate so much of the way we use our land. It is a data science project, and it deploys novel systems of collecting, analyzing, and displaying geospatial and regulatory data. It is a digital humanities project, innovative in its methodology and having the potential to unlock new research on the central instrument that shapes our urban built environment, social relations and hierarchies, and geographies of opportunity. It is a social science project that will improve our understanding of our politics, society, and economy - and expand our collective ability to reimagine future, alternative, and reparative trajectories. And it is a computer science project, deploying machine learning and natural language processing to expand our understanding of how algorithms can read complex regulatory texts. WHY: Zoning laws have direct impacts on housing availability, transportation systems, the environment, economic opportunity, educational opportunity, and our food supply. Despite codes’ importance, ordinary people can’t make heads or tails of them. They are too complex and inscrutable. The National Zoning Atlas will help people better understand zoning, which would in turn broaden participation in land use decisions, identify opportunities for zoning reform, and narrow a wide information gap that currently favors land speculators, institutional investors, and homeowners over socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. It would also enable comparisons across jurisdictions, illuminate regional and statewide trends, and strengthen national planning for housing production, transportation infrastructure, and climate response. To understand the kinds of things a zoning atlas can show, review this research paper documenting the findings of the Connecticut Zoning Atlas (the first statewide atlas) and this research paper in HUD Cityscape describing the motivations of the project. HOW: To date, this project has relied on manual reviews of thousands of pages of zoning code texts and their corresponding maps. A how-to guide for these reviews is available for free download. The project is also using grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development Community Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program to automate this process so we can more quickly map the 30,000 localities estimated to use zoning. Our basic operating principles are: Deploy data for the public good ​Evaluate and adapt methods and approaches ​Collaborate broadly ​Cultivate up-and-coming talent ​Assume that this is a solvable problem, worth solving ​WHO: Project participants overwhelmingly include representatives of academic institutions, nonprofits, and government agencies, with students providing important support. In addition, private partners may participate on specific geographic teams or provide data. Because this project aims to expand knowledge for the public good, its resulting online atlases will remain free to view regardless of who pitches in to create them.

Extract detailed property data points — address, URL, prices, floor space, overview, parking, agents, and more — from any real estate listings. The Rankings data contains the ranking of properties as they come in the SERPs of different property listing sites. Furthermore, with our real estate agents' data, you can directly get in touch with the real estate agents/brokers via email or phone numbers.

A. Usecase/Applications possible with the data:

1. Property pricing - accurate property data for real estate valuation. Gather information about properties and their valuations from Federal, State, or County level websites. Monitor the real estate market across the country and decide the best time to buy or sell based on data

2. Secure your real estate investment - Monitor foreclosures and auctions to identify investment opportunities. Identify areas within special economic and opportunity zones such as QOZs - cross-map that with commercial or residential listings to identify leads. Ensure the safety of your investments, property, and personnel by analyzing crime data prior to investing.

3. Identify hot, emerging markets - Gather data about rent, demographic, and population data to expand retail and e-commerce businesses. Helps you drive better investment decisions.

4. Profile a building’s retrofit history - a building permit is required before the start of any construction activity of a building, such as changing the building structure, remodeling, or installing new equipment. Moreover, many large cities provide public datasets of building permits in history. Use building permits to profile a city’s building retrofit history.

5. Study market changes - New construction data helps measure and evaluate the size, composition, and changes occurring within the housing and construction sectors.

6. Finding leads - Property records can reveal a wealth of information, such as how long an owner has currently lived in a home. US Census Bureau data and City-Data.com provide profiles of towns and city neighborhoods as well as demographic statistics. This data is available for free and can help agents increase their expertise in their communities and get a feel for the local market.

7. Searching for Targeted Leads - Focusing on small, niche areas of the real estate market can sometimes be the most efficient method of finding leads. For example, targeting high-end home sellers may take longer to develop a lead, but the payoff could be greater. Or, you may have a special interest or background in a certain type of home that would improve your chances of connecting with potential sellers. In these cases, focused data searches may help you find the best leads and develop relationships with future sellers.

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• Customize parameters to suit your needs
• Add to your projects
• Contact support for further customization

Not all households in San Mateo County enjoy the opportunities that its high-performing economy has to offer. DOH's goal is to increase the rate at which the County’s low-income residents are able to access the opportunities the county has to offer by encouraging affordable housing development in High and Highest Resource areas. High and Highest Resource areas are mapped here: CTCAC/HCD Opportunity Area Map: https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/opportunity.asp. This map identifies areas in every region of the state whose characteristics have been shown by research to be associated with positive economic, educational, and health outcomes for low-income families—particularly long-term outcomes for children. DOH will use its development pipeline dashboard to map the location of DOH-investments in affordable housing projects within these higher resource areas. The AHF Notice of Funding Opportunity will continue to prioritize developments located in higher resource areas. The definition for high and highest opportunity areas may change in the future but will be informed by State guidance and methodology. This performance measure shows the percentage of affordable housing development projects completed in the high and highest resource areas in a fiscal year. Project completion was selected as a benchmark as this is the time when low-income families gain access to affordable housing. DOH disaggregates the data showing the percentage of units, from the completed projects in a fiscal year, by income level and a special population served known as County Clients.

Extract detailed property data points — address, URL, prices, floor space, overview, parking, agents, and more — from any real estate listings. The Rankings data contains the ranking of properties as they come in the SERPs of different property listing sites. Furthermore, with our real estate agents' data, you can directly get in touch with the real estate agents/brokers via email or phone numbers.

A. Usecase/Applications possible with the data:

1. Property pricing - accurate property data for real estate valuation. Gather information about properties and their valuations from Federal, State, or County level websites. Monitor the real estate market across the country and decide the best time to buy or sell based on data

2. Secure your real estate investment - Monitor foreclosures and auctions to identify investment opportunities. Identify areas within special economic and opportunity zones such as QOZs - cross-map that with commercial or residential listings to identify leads. Ensure the safety of your investments, property, and personnel by analyzing crime data prior to investing.

3. Identify hot, emerging markets - Gather data about rent, demographic, and population data to expand retail and e-commerce businesses. Helps you drive better investment decisions.

4. Profile a building’s retrofit history - a building permit is required before the start of any construction activity of a building, such as changing the building structure, remodeling, or installing new equipment. Moreover, many large cities provide public datasets of building permits in history. Use building permits to profile a city’s building retrofit history.

5. Study market changes - New construction data helps measure and evaluate the size, composition, and changes occurring within the housing and construction sectors.

6. Finding leads - Property records can reveal a wealth of information, such as how long an owner has currently lived in a home. US Census Bureau data and City-Data.com provide profiles of towns and city neighborhoods as well as demographic statistics. This data is available for free and can help agents increase their expertise in their communities and get a feel for the local market.

7. Searching for Targeted Leads - Focusing on small, niche areas of the real estate market can sometimes be the most efficient method of finding leads. For example, targeting high-end home sellers may take longer to develop a lead, but the payoff could be greater. Or, you may have a special interest or background in a certain type of home that would improve your chances of connecting with potential sellers. In these cases, focused data searches may help you find the best leads and develop relationships with future sellers.

How does it work?

• Analyze sample data
• Customize parameters to suit your needs
• Add to your projects
• Contact support for further customization

This dataset represents Arizona Opportunity Zones, a federal tax incentive program designed to spur economic development by offering tax advantages to investors who invest in businesses and real estate within designated low-income areas. The zones were established as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

For more information, visit the Arizona Opportunity Zones page here.

Purpose To identify Opportunity Zones where investors can receive tax incentives for development and investment in low-income areas.

Dataset Classification Level 0 – Open

Known Uses Supports investment planning, urban development, and economic growth in designated areas.

Known Errors Boundaries may not reflect recent changes to Opportunity Zones.

Data Contact City of Tucson IT GIS GIS_IT@tucsonaz.gov

Status Created on December 12, 2018. Not maintained. Updated only as needed.

Supplemental Information This dataset is based on census tracts submitted to the U.S. Treasury on 3/21/18 and designated (approved) on 4/9/18. The original data source comes from the Arizona Commerce Authority webmap. View it here.

The Biodiversity Investment Opportunities Map (BIO Map) is a key deliverable of the NSW Government’s $40 million Green Corridors program, a Government priority action identified in NSW 2021: A Plan …Show full descriptionThe Biodiversity Investment Opportunities Map (BIO Map) is a key deliverable of the NSW Government’s $40 million Green Corridors program, a Government priority action identified in NSW 2021: A Plan to make NSW number one. The map was prepared with funding provided by the NSW Environmental Trust. The Illawarra BIO Map covers a 112,942-hectare area defined by the Kiama, Shellharbour and Wollongong Local Government Areas. This includes the Illawarra coastal plain and escarpment, and the eastern parts of the sandstone plateau to the west. Each of these landscapes provides a diversity of vegetation types, habitats and landforms, which combined make the region rich in overall biodiversity values. Mapping criteria were used to identify and map priority investment areas, and targeted stakeholder consultation was conducted to inform the outputs of the project. Stakeholders consulted included nine state government authorities, four local councils and six non-government organisations. The priority investment areas comprise of biodiversity core areas and a network of state and regional biodiversity corridors within the Illawarra region. The total area represented within the mapped priority investment areas is 66,827 hectares, comprising 13,980 hectares of core area and 52,847 hectares of corridors. This represents about 59 per cent of the Illawarra region. The BIO Map project aims to achieve better biodiversity outcomes by directing biodiversity investment funding to the strategic locations of greatest benefit. A landholder’s right to carry out agricultural and developmental activities on their land are not altered by their property being identified as a priority investment area on the BIO Map. The BIO Map identifies areas where landowners have more opportunities to receive funding to protect their bushland. Any involvement by a landowner in such programs is entirely voluntary. Report Title: Biodiversity Investment Opportunities Map Mapping Priority Investment Areas for the Illawarra Region

The Opportunity Zone program is a nationwide initiative administered by the U.S. Treasury created under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The program provides federal tax incentives for investment in distressed communities over the next 10 years. Areas designated as Opportunity Zones will be able to reap the benefits of capital gains to help redevelop undeserved communities. The state was entitled to nominate 149 low-income census tracts to be Opportunity Zones. Once the U.S. Treasury has approved the state’s Opportunity Zone nominations, the designation will be effective for 10 years. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will administer the program with support from the Maryland Department of Commerce.This is a MD iMAP hosted service. Find more information at https://imap.maryland.gov.Feature Service Link:https://mdgeodata.md.gov/imap/rest/services/BusinessEconomy/MD_IncentiveZones/FeatureServer/14

The Opportunity Zones application is meant for both internal and external education. One of the main goals of CED is to attract companies to Phoenix and add jobs to our economy. This web application will educate potential investors and business locates on where the Opportunity Zones in Phoenix are so that they can make an informed decision on where in Phoenix they should consider locating. We continuously receive calls and emails asking for information about this federal incentive program, and this web application is a resource we can direct them to.Opportunity Zones is a new development program established by Congress to spur private investment into low-income communities nationwide. This map application allows you to view Phoenix’s 42 Opportunity Zones, nominated by the Governor on March 21, 2018, and certified by the Department of Treasury on April 9, 2018.

This layer is a combination of multiple incentive areas used in the Development Assistance map.The New Markets Tax Credit Program incentivizes community development and economic growth through the use of tax credits that attract private investment to distressed communities. Through the NMTC Program, the CDFI Fund allocates tax credit authority to Community Development Entities (CDEs) through a competitive application process. CDEs are financial intermediaries through which private capital flows from an investor to a qualified business located in a low-income community. CDEs use their authority to offer tax credits to investors in exchange for equity in the CDE. Using the capital from these equity investments, CDEs can make loans and investments to businesses operating in low-income communities on better rates and terms and more flexible features than the market. Derived from 2011-2015 Census Tracts per CDFI Fund CIMS mapping tool."The Opportunity Zones program provides tax incentives, including a temporary deferral on capital gains taxes, when investors reinvest those gains in qualified Opportunity Funds. The funds must in turn invest in low-income communities from designated census tracts, called Opportunity Zones." - Florida Department of Economic Opportunity"The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) encourages the establishment of a Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) as a means to create communities of opportunity in distressed neighborhoods. The goal of this program is to reinvest in human and economic capital, and economically empower low-income residents as part of an overall community revitalization strategy. Comprehensive community revitalization strategies seek to create partnerships among federal and local governments, the private sector, community organizations and neighborhood residents." - City of Fort Myers Florida Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas Plan"The Community Contribution Tax Credit Program provides a financial incentive (up to 50 percent tax credit or sales tax refund) to encourage Florida businesses to make donations toward community development and housing projects for low-income persons." - Florida Department of Economic Opportunity In the project area, the City will acquire vacant lots and partner with non-profit and for profit affordable home builders to construct homes for low income residents. The CCTC program enables the City to continue to revitalize the area by having the ability to solicit donations from eligible businesses. The City will use the donations for acquisition and construction of homes for low income residents.Created 4/27/2018.

The South Dallas/Fair Park Opportunity Fund is designed to offer loans and grants aimed at fostering economic growth and supporting community development in the neighborhoods around Fair Park. Funding is available for businesses or organizations that are either located within specific census tracts or serve a population where at least 90% of residents come from those tracts.Eligible Census Tracts:48113011500481130208004811300270348113002500481130203004811302090048113003700Grants and loans are available in the following program areas:Human Development contracts must demonstrate measurable outcomes related to the following goals in the service area: increase workforce participation and readiness; stimulate small business activity and growth; improve health outcomes; improve public safety; or, improve educational outcomes.Economic Development projects must demonstrate the creation of new jobs, the retention of existing jobs or an increase in the Service Area tax base.25% of annually budgeted funds may be awarded as grants; a maximum of $200,000 may be awarded for human development contracts.A minimum of 75% of budgeted funds must be awarded as repayable loansLast updated by Ridvan Kirimli on 08/30/2024.