T he recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made the eight-year-old federal Opportunity Zone (OZ) program permanent, although each of the nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones will be ...

For real estate developers, fund sponsors, and investors, the following revised framework supports long-term capital planning and reinforces the QOZ program’s role as a core incentive that can, and ...

Rural communities across Ohio face no shortage of challenges. From aging infrastructure and limited broadband access to tight ...

I am the Managing Partner of EB5AN—a national EB-5 visa firm with 2,300+ foreign investors from 60+ countries. Under the new rules introduced by the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (the “RIA”), ...

Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...

Tamil Nadu accelerates rural development, targeting housing improvements and renovating 5,000 irrigation tanks for vulnerable ...

Sam Silverman is the Managing Partner of EB5AN—a national EB-5 visa firm with 2,300+ foreign investors from 60+ countries. I have previously examined how rural EB-5 projects can be used as an avenue ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of India have marked a new phase of cooperation on sustainable rural development, with a senior IFAD delegation advancing ...

Tamil Nadu government has decided to speed up the execution of rural development schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin and Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan, besides ...