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Public housing
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 * Name of article: Public housing
 * This article accesses the different forms of housing tenure, including public, social, and private dwellings. Defining each criteria necessary for people to be considered in each form of housing, there are also references to different cities and countries and how they got to public and social housing programs. The history of public housing comes from the Industrial Revolution where the creation of city building became systemic and structured with the idea of generating access to affordable housing came in mind.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

Yes, this article outlines the history of affordable housing throughout the world, with a large enough section on the United States to focus on. With many references and sources to build upon, this article includes information with which to compare and contrast with other countries. However, the information not included is the causes of housing inequality, which is found in another article closely related to this one.


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Content

 * Guiding questions
 * The content is up-to-date with topics being consistently updated. There is a large amount of history that is not relevant to my topic, and there is no connecting link between all the countries due to their years. Each country contains different years and disasters, which may be helpful to some people doing research.
 * The content is up-to-date with topics being consistently updated. There is a large amount of history that is not relevant to my topic, and there is no connecting link between all the countries due to their years. Each country contains different years and disasters, which may be helpful to some people doing research.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions
 * The article does appear to be decently neutral with information, but there is clearly more research done on European cities rather than cities in Asia or Latin America. Due to the fact that the article is based on the history of housing, the tone does appear neutral. There are not enough viewpoints from people who are, or were, affected by these specific types of housing tenures. Moreover, it does not debate the pros and cons of each public and social housing.
 * The article does appear to be decently neutral with information, but there is clearly more research done on European cities rather than cities in Asia or Latin America. Due to the fact that the article is based on the history of housing, the tone does appear neutral. There are not enough viewpoints from people who are, or were, affected by these specific types of housing tenures. Moreover, it does not debate the pros and cons of each public and social housing.


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions
 * Yes, there are 78 references, most of which seem to work. The references are ranging in years of publication, with the soonest being December of 2018. Some of the references do not appear to be important, there are a large amount of different areas but most of the sources appear to be repetitive topics. The repetitiveness comes from the same mentions of policies in areas, without adding any new information.


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Organization

 * Guiding questions
 * The article is well-organized and easy to navigate. The article appears to have been edited often, therefore I did not find grammatical errors. Therefore, the article is extremely focused on the main topic of housing and associations.


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions
 * There are images, however, there is a large amount of texts. There could be more images in use to fully display the differences and similarities between housing tenure. The images could be more detailed with years and who created the designed.
 * There are images, however, there is a large amount of texts. There could be more images in use to fully display the differences and similarities between housing tenure. The images could be more detailed with years and who created the designed.


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions
 * Housing is usually talking about within industries and markets, but there is not a large stress about housing inequality. There is mostly writing about housing availability and prices and the kind of people moving into these dwellings, without regard to the social factors.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions
 * The articles strengths include the amount of research available within each topic, there are a lot of references and edits between writing. Improvements include the areas that could be dissected more, as mentioned earlier, and a few paragraphs of racial and economic disparities that impact the amount of affordable housing; who it is available to, the prices, etc.


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

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