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Revision explanation
I plan to revise this article because residential segregation is interconnected with many issues of discrimination in the United States and has a huge impact on communities in terms of their access to healthcare, food, education, jobs, etc. The article is currently incomplete, badly organized, and poorly written; I plan to edit the phrasing in many of the sections that have already been written, add additional evidence and examples to these sections, and add additional sections with essential information to the topic, specifically bringing attention to discriminatory practices and their impacts on low-income and minority communities that are currently not recognized by this article.

Planned work for each section
General edits: Much of the phrasing in this article could be improved, there are some unnecessary quotes that could be reworded into summaries, and the article uses the word “blacks” to refer to Black families and communities, which I plan to change.

Lead section: I plan to expand the final paragraph to better summarize the information I am adding to the rest of the article.

History: I plan to expand this section as it is currently written very vaguely and broadly with few sources. I would break the section into chronological subsections and add a summary of the history of discriminatory housing policies in the US with a link to the History of housing discrimination section of the Housing segregation in the United States page, which goes into a detailed description of each piece of legislation.

Recent trends: I’d clarify the definition of the index of dissimilarity based on the description in the Index of dissimilarity Wikipedia page.

Segregation by tenure: I will change the name to Housing demographics to more accurately reflect the information in this section, and then update the statistics.

Influences on segregation: This section lists factors covered in the following sections, so I will make the following sections (from Exclusionary zoning to Gentrification) into subsections of this one for better organization.

Racial zoning: This section briefly mentions one instance of racially restrictive covenants, but it needs to be covered in much more depth.

Land-use zoning: I plan to expand this section to cover present-day single family zoning policies and its impact on affordable housing options and residential segregation.

Steering: This section closes with a sentence that places doubt on the existence and effects of steering, so I’d like to add further evidence of its existence and negative effects.

Housing appraisals: I’d like to add a section about racial bias in housing appraisals, as we discussed in class.

Attitudes and preferences: This section is phrased in a biased manner that excuses white people of discriminatory behavior, for example by suggesting that an increase in the Black population “causes” white flight, rather than phrasing it the other way around. The section also mentions that white flight may be fueled by economic factors, but doesn’t specify what these might be, so I plan to add an explanation of the causes. Additionally, some of the phrasing in this section is redundant, specifically about the 2002 study. The final paragraph is about immigrants, which could also be expanded with specifics about different groups and an analysis of the degree of choice vs. discriminatory practices that impact these communities.

Neighborhood disinvestment: I would add this section under Influences on segregation. I’d summarize this phenomenon, similarly to its appearance in the Housing segregation article, and then explain its connection to gentrification, leading the reader to the following section.

Gentrification: This section is extremely short and lacks citations. In addition to a description of the definition, history, and causes of gentrification, I will add a summary of relocation as a direct consequence of gentrification, as described in the Relocation section of the Housing discrimination article (which will be linked).

Consequences: I would add several subsections, described below.

Education: This section would cover segregation in education as it is linked to residential segregation, and the impacts on disparate educational experiences between communities.

Healthcare: This is section would cover differences in access to healthcare and higher degrees of health issues in minority communities.

Food deserts: This section would discuss the concept of food deserts, sometimes known as food apartheid, which is a lack of access to grocery stores and fresh, unprocessed foods in low-income and minority residential areas.

Urban heat islands: This section will cover the increased risks of heat-related illness and death in low-income and minority urban communities due to lack of trees and green spaces in these neighborhoods.

Employment: This section will describe limited employment opportunities due to residential segregation.

Social policies and initiative: This section is better written than much of the rest of the article, but could be broken down into subsections, much like the Legislation subsection in the Housing segregation in the United States article.

Residential segregation in Atlanta, GA: This section could be expanded to include several major cities with high degrees of residential segregation, like Detroit, MI, and Chicago, IL.

Residential segregation in Detroit, MI: Similarly to the already written section about Atlanta, this section will briefly summarize the history of residential segregation in Detroit, current patterns, and the social and economic impacts on segregated communities.

Residential segregation in Chicago, IL: This section will summarize similar information to the sections about Atlanta and Detroit as it pertains to Chicago.

Links to other articles to add:
History of housing discrimination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_segregation_in_the_United_States#History_of_housing_discrimination

Real estate appraisal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_appraisal

Race and health in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health_in_the_United_States

School segregation in the United States:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_segregation_in_the_United_States#Sources_of_contemporary_segregation

Food deserts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

Detroit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit

Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

Note: I will most likely add additional links to articles as I am writing, but this is a starting list of relevant articles I will be sure to link to the Residential segregation in the United States page.

Links to Residential segregation in other articles:
Racial segregation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

Mortgage discrimination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_discrimination

Potential difficulties
I’m anticipating that it will be difficult to keep a distinct difference between this article and Housing segregation in the United States. Many of the edits required to improve this article require making it more similar to the other article, so I will be sure to highlight points less covered in the other article and reference it when a topic has already been well explained.

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