CREATING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL: President Donald J. Trump is encouraging investment to create opportunity in distressed communities. 

• President Trump is signing an Executive Order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council.
  • The Council will be chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, and comprised of 13 Federal agencies.
• The Council will engage with all levels of government on ways to better use taxpayer dollars to revitalize low-income communities.
• The Council will improve revitalization efforts by streamlining, coordinating, and targeting existing Federal programs to economically distressed areas, including Opportunity Zones.
  • Lack of coordination and targeting has led to cumbersome applications, program waste, and ineffective benefits.
• The Council will consider legislative proposals and undertake regulatory reform to remove barriers to revitalization efforts.
• The Council will present the President with a number of reports identifying and recommending ways to encourage investment in economically distressed communities.

ENCOURAGING INVESTMENT: Opportunity Zones will spur private investment to revitalize hurting communities and unleash their economic potential.  ..."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-lifting-american-communities-left-behind/