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Residential Segregation in Atlanta, GA:
Within the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, residential segregation is highest among DeKalb and Fulton Counties, the two most urbanized counties in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. These counties consist of 70% of the black residents in Atlanta, meaning that a strong majority of Atlanta's black citizens are living in the city's most urbanized areas. In addition, white families have been steadily moving to suburban areas around Atlanta since the 1980s, leaving counties such as DeKalb and Fulton to consist of majority or nearly majority black residents, with 55.3% of residents in DeKalb County being black and 44.5% of residents in Fulton County being black. Furthermore, the suburban areas outside of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb county tend to be less racially segregated, yet black residents in these suburbs, as well as in more urban areas, are still the most segregated of any race of residents in Atlanta. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the current state of residential segregation, largely by race, occurred due to housing development practices and city infrastructure changes during the 20th century. In order to implement new housing programs and interstates throughout the 20th century, the City of Atlanta chose to remove many poor or low income neighborhoods. The removal of these neighborhoods disproportionately affected black Atlanta citizens, and made housing more expensive and poverty more concentrated on the southern side of Atlanta, in counties such as DeKalb and Fulton.

Effects of Residential Segregation on Poverty in Atlanta
As more white residents moved to the suburbs throughout the 1980s, black residents remained in many of the same urban areas. The migration of much of the middle class to the suburbs of Atlanta decreased poverty levels for black residents in Atlanta as a whole, but it left residents at or near poverty exposed to much higher levels of poverty as the middle class migrated out and took resources with them. Furthermore, moves made by black residents at or below the poverty level to escape impoverished neighborhoods within Atlanta were overshadowed by the same moves made by white residents, leaving mainly black residents exposed to poverty within metropolitan Atlanta after movements made by the middle class. This shift in residence has disproportionately left black citizens in Atlanta exposed top poverty, with 80% of black children living in Atlanta being exposed to poverty. Within these areas, which are largely in southern Atlanta in areas of DeKalb and Fulton County, residents are having to spend 30% of their annual income on housing.

Effects of Residential Segregation and Consequential Poverty on Education in Atlanta
Research gathered from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) shows that schools with higher numbers of students living in poverty perform more poorly on standardized state exams and are given poorer scores from the Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement, with 99% of schools in extreme poverty and 79% of schools in high-poverty receiving grades of D or F from the Office of Student Achievement. In addition, the GBPI found that the majority of these struggling schools are comprised of majority students who are also racial minorities, with 98% of public schools in Georgia considered to be extremely impoverished having 75% or higher students who are black or Hispanic. In Atlanta, students from northern counties are enrolled in pre-school in higher rates than in the southern counties (such as Fulton and DeKalb), and 11 of the top 14 performing schools within the Atlanta Public School District were in Atlanta's northern counties.

For my Residential Segregation article, I plan to add information about the current state of residential segregation in Atlanta, GA. I plan to use information from various reputable sources to find information about where and why residential segregation still exists in Atlanta and how that impacts things like quality of public education.

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