; and (iii) be accessible to the population served by the program established under this title; and (D) where applicable, specify how the strategy will increase affordable housing options for individuals living in rural areas, persistent poverty counties (defined as any county with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent, as determined in each of the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, and in the Bureau of the Census’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for the most recent year for which the estimates are available), and high-poverty areas (defined as any census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent as measured by the 5-year data series available from the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau for 2013 to 2017). . 3. Requirement for surface transportation block grant program Section 133 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j)