Jared Kushner and his business partners are smart enough to grab an opportunity when they see one, and Jersey City presented them with one.

The Hudson County city has become a boom town for millennials who work in Manhattan but can't - or won't - pay the rent to live there. The Kushner Companies, once headed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and key presidential adviser Jared Kushner, wanted to capitalize on the city's gentrification. They needed some help, however, and took advantage of a federal program that allows overseas investors to obtain U.S. visas if they invest $500,000 in projects where jobs are scarce.

As The Jersey Journal explains, one Kushner project, the $194 million Trump Bay Street tower, was built with $50 million in financing through the visa program. When completed, it will be an opulent 50-story highrise with apartments renting in excess of $60,000 a year.

Guidelines for the program say the project must be in an area where unemployment is higher than 1.5 times the national average. In Downtown Jersey City where Kushner is building its tower, unemployment is much lower.

But with some help from the state officials, they came up with a map that stretched for four miles and included some of the city's poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods.

The map also excluded some of the city's wealthiest areas.

Jersey City resident Gary Jones, when asked by The Jersey Journal if the Kushner development helped his neighborhood that was part of the map but three miles from the project, said, "Take a look around. Of course not."

But an officer for the firm that helped Kushner with the program, Mark Giresi, told The Washington Post: "In large urban markets like Jersey City these types of real estate development projects create much-needed jobs, particularly in the construction industry across areas of the city that cover multiple census tracts."

He said the Bay Street project created more than 1,280 construction and other jobs and that 1 Journal Square is projected to create 6,600.

What the company is doing is legal jumping through a loophole.

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