The eligibility criteria: The Opportunity Zone Selection Process As prescribed by law, governors nominated which census tracts should be designated as Opportu

The eligibility criteria: The Opportunity Zone Selection Process As prescribed by law, governors nominated which census tracts should be designated as Opportunity Zones by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. To be eligible for designation, a census tract must: - Have a poverty rate of at least 20 percent; or - Have a median income below 80 percent of that in the State or metropolitan area, or for rural census tracts, 80 percent of that in the entire State; or - Be contiguous with a census tract meeting one of the above conditions and have a median income less than 125 percent of the qualifying contiguous census tract. [0] [0] https://www.rd.usda.gov/sites/default/files/ImpactofOpportunityZones_082020.pdf https://www.rd.usda.gov/sites/default/files/ImpactofOpportun...