Additional Resources

• HUD's ArcGIS website, "Opportunity Zones and Affordable Housing," maps Opportunity Zones with the option to layer affordable housing including HUD public housing, housing choice vouchers, multifamily developments, HUD healthcare facilities, U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development properties, and low-income housing tax credit developments. hud.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=cc05a273151d40a7b2eff47dc70bd745.
  
• The U.S. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund's website, "Opportunity Zones Resources," contains links to regulations, frequently asked questions, maps, and other relevant resources. www.cdfifund.gov/Pages/Opportunity-Zones.aspx.
  
• Enterprise Community Partners' "Opportunity Zones" website hosts an interactive mapping tool, data platform, commentary, and guidance useful for local officials, potential investors, researchers, and other interested parties. www.enterprisecommunity.org/financing-and-development/opportunity-zones-program.
  
• "Do enterprise zones create jobs? Evidence from California's enterprise zone program," (2010), by David Neumark and Jed Kolko, evaluates the efficacy of one of the several state-level, place-based tax incentive programs created in the 1990s. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119010000033.
  
• "Do Capital Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence across Industries from the New Markets Tax Credit," (2016), by Kaitlyn Harger and Amanda Ross, examines the geographic sorting of industries in relation to NMTC eligibility. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jors.12286.
  
• The LOCUS "National Opportunity Zone Ranking Report" (2018), by Christopher A. Coes and Tracy Hadden Loh, helps investors and policymakers rank Opportunity Zones based on "Smart Growth Potential" and a "Social Equity + Vulnerability Index" score. smartgrowthamerica.org/resources/locus-opportunity-zones-national-ranking-report/.
  
• The Council of Development Finance Agencies' "Opportunity Zones Report: State of the States" (2018), by Toby Rittner, Katie Kramer, and Tim Fisher, offers survey results from 41 states to gauge understanding of Opportunity Zones, and it highlights current state-level strategies to implement Opportunity Zones. www.cdfa.net/cdfa/cdfaweb.nsf/ordredirect.html?open&id=201808_OZSoS.html.
  
• "How States Can Maximize Opportunity Zones" (2018), by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak, Jamie Rubin, and Dan Berkovits, offers state policymakers principles for action and recommendations for creating an Opportunity Plan and an investment prospectus. www.thenewlocalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OpportunityZonesStateAction-Plan_TheNewLocalism_June222018.pdf.
  

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• “How Do Small Area Fair Market Rents Affect the Location and Number of Units Affordable to Voucher Holders?” (2018), by the New York University Furman Center, examines how the implementation of Small Area Fair Market Rents impacts choices for households receiving housing choice vouchers. furmancenter.org/files/NYUFurmanCenter_SAFMRbrief_5JAN2018_1.pdf.
  
• “Role of Landlords in Creating Healthy Homes: Section 8 Landlord Perspectives on Healthy Housing Practices,” (2017), by Valerie L.Polletta, Margaret Reid, Eugene Barros, Catherine Duarte, Kevin Donaher, Howard Wensley, and Lisa Wolff, conducted focus groups with landlords to identify challenges to making rental units for housing choice voucher households healthy living environments. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0890117116671081.
  
• “How to attract more landlords to the housing choice voucher program: a case study of landlord outreach efforts,” (2016), by David P. Varady, Joseph Jaroscak, and Reinout Kleinhans, studies the landlord outreach efforts by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority and discusses the policy implications of its findings. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17535069.2016.1175741.
  
• "“Examining Neighborhood Opportunity and Locational Outcomes for Housing Choice Voucher Recipients: A Comparative Study between Duval County, Florida, and Bexar County, Texas” (2017), by Ruoniu Wang, Rebecca J. Walter, Abdulnaser A. Arafat, Xuesong Ding, and Ammar A. Naji, compares outcomes in two communities to investigate whether voucher households are able to reside in high-opportunity neighborhoods. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cico.12254.
  
• “Achieving Housing Choice and Mobility in the Voucher Program: Recommendations for the Administration” (2018), by Deborah Thrope, examines barriers facing families with housing vouchers and proposes policy recommendations. www.nhlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AH-27-1_11Thrope.pdf.
  
• “Mitigating Apprehension About Section 8 Vouchers: The Positive Role of Housing Specialists in Search and Placement” (2010), by Matthew D. Marr, uses ethnographic research to describe strategies housing specialists can use to eliminate apprehension among landlords. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2005.9521535.
  
• “Realizing the Housing Voucher Program’s Potential to Enable Families to Move to Better Neighborhoods” (2016), by Barbara Sard and Douglas Rice, examines evidence that vouchers can increase positive outcomes for families and proposes policy solutions to overcome challenges. www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/11-9-15hous.pdf.
  
• “National and State Housing Fact Sheets & Data” (2017), by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, provides state and national voucher utilization data. www.cbpp.org/research/housing/national-and-state-housing-fact-sheets-data.
  

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