Total investment in qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) tracked by national accounting and consulting firm Novogradac surpassed $30 billion as of June 30, according to a special report released today. Novogradac Opportunity Zones Investment Report: Data Through June 30, 2022, reports that $30.49 billion was raised by QOFs tracked by Novogradac for investment in opportunity zones (OZ). Novogradac is tracking 1,475 funds, of which 1,097 report a specific amount of equity raised. The June 30 total is $6.09 billion more than Novogradac reported at the end of 2021, giving the six-month period the second-largest dollar increase in OZ investment since Novogradac began tracking the data. Michael Novogradac, CPA, published a blog post on the QOF investment data, which is also topic of this week’s episode of Novogradac’s Tax Credit Tuesday podcast.