Potential tax breaks are encouraging both corporate and private investors to raise tens of billions of dollars this year to invest in distressed rural areas. President Trump’s 2017 tax package includes these tax breaks for “opportunity zones,” which are designated areas around the country—and largely in rural America …
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United Nations: Clean water and safe sanitation eludes the world’s poor
The United Nations has released a sweeping report that outlines gross inequities across the globe, whereby more than two billion people do not have clean drinking water, and more than four billion lack reliable sanitation infrastructure.
Affordable housing in California remains elusive
Although California lawmakers in 2017 passed several bills to ease housing construction across the state, affordable rental units remain out of reach for many low-income residents. In a new report by the California Housing Partnership, about two-thirds of the more than two million very low-income renters in the state spend more than half their income on rent.
HUD pushes for affordable housing in Opportunity Zones
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development is encouraging developers to build affordable housing in the 8,700 federally designated Opportunity Zones.
How clean is US groundwater? Researchers remain uncertain
Although the U.S. federal government has monitored the country’s groundwater for the last 30 years, scientists say that only now can they begin to understand long-term pollution in the largest aquifers. The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Assessment says concentrations of chloride and sodium are on the increase, and in California, nitrate levels are climbing, according to Circle of Blue.