For many seniors in battleground Arizona, housing costs are at the top of cost-of-living concerns. NBC News' Jacob Soboroff reports on how some are getting by, and how they view the presidential candidates.
As far as federal agencies go, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn't get a ton of attention in the news. It makes sense then that Donald Trump's pick to head it, former Trump administration official and former Texas state lawmaker Scott Turner, didn't attract the same level of scrutiny as many of the president-elect's other head-turning picks.
But this group failed at that goal in practice: Low-income areas were largely neglected while financially well-off areas received investment, in part because politically connected players steered 'opportunity zone' designations and investment to areas that benefited their own pocketbooks. As PBS reported in 2021, “There are 8,764 Opportunity Zones across the country.
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