So opportunity zones, as you all know, were part of the Tax Cuts and jobs act in 2018. And Senator Tim Scotts and others who were the architects of this legislation came up with the opportunity zones, y'. All. There's 8,754 qualified opportunity zone sites around our country, urban, tribal and rural. The governments, the territory leaders of every single state and territory in our country were given a task to identify 25% of eligible census tracts. (09:50–09:57)
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