HUD's Office of Community Planning and

• Area must be:
– Contiguous
– Primarily residential
– High LMI %
Strategy Area
• 70% LMI if upper quartile > 70% (use upper quartile %
if quartile 51 – 70%; 51% LMI if upper quartile < 51%
• EZ/RC; or
• 20% poverty rate in Census tracts/block groups and 90%
have 25% poverty
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