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HUD Official Looks To Advance Opportunity Zone Program In New England

HUD New England Regional Administrator David Tille announces grant to Vermont
Pat Bradley/WAMC

The sweeping 2017 federal tax law created a program that offers big tax rewards in exchange for putting money into projects in designated areas called opportunity zones.

The program has been slow to start up in Massachusetts which has 138 opportunity zones. These include low-income urban neighborhoods and rural towns.

Earlier this week, David Tille, the New England Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development was in Springfield to tout the program during a meeting with Mayor Domenic Sarno.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Tille.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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