SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

PPA 786
Urban Policy

Professor Yinger
Spring 2008


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 Professor Yinger
 451 Eggers Hall 
 Phone: 443-9062 
 Email: 
jyinger@maxwell.syr.edu
 Website: http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jyinger


 

 Class Time:          MW 5:15-6:35 
 Class Location:  018 Eggers

 
Office Hours:       MW 11:00-12:00 or by appointment 

 

  •  Please contact Mrs. Santy to make an appointment with the professor. 


Course Overview and Requirements:

 

 Syllabus

-   Spring 2008 Syllabus

         Cases

-   Case Assignments

-   Sign Up Sheet for Case Discussions

-   Case Instructions

-   Promoting Integration Case

 

         Policy Memos

-   JY's Tips for Professional Writing
 

-   For examples of professional writing, see the professor's op-ed pieces on
     this web site.
 

 

          Urban Policy Summit

 -  Topic Preference Form

-   Topic Assignments

 

          Optional Computer Assignment

-   Assignment

-   Using Grid city

-   Writing about Bid Functions and Sorting

-   Graph of city with two income classes

-   Graph of city with two work sites

-   Graph of city with two-worker households

 

Lecture Notes (To be posted before each class)

-   Lecture 1   -  Introduction

-   Lecture 2   - New Orleans

-   Lecture 3   - Evaluating Social Programs

-   Lecture 4   - Housing Concepts, Household Bids

-   Lecture 5   - Household Sorting and Neighborhood Amenities

-   Lecture 6   - Neighborhood Change

-   Lecture 7   - Overview of Housing Markets  

-   Lecture 8   - Housing Problems and Federal Housing Programs

-   Lecture 9   - Homelessness

-   Lecture 10  - Race and Ethnicity, Prejudice and Discrimination

-   Lecture 11  - Housing Discrimination and Its Causes

-   Lecture 12  - Residential Segregation: Measurement, Causes, Consequences

-   Lecture 13  - Mortgage Markets and Predatory Lending

-   Lecture 14  - Discrimination in Mortgage Lending

-   Lecture 15  - Poverty: Concepts and Evidence  

-   Lecture 16  - Concentrated Poverty 

-   Lecture 17  - Welfare Programs and Principles of Welfare Policy

-   Lecture 18  - The New World of Welfare Policy

-   Lecture 18  - The New World of Welfare Policy

-   Lecture 19  - Urban Labor Markets

-   Lecture 20  - Human Capital Programs to Promote Economic Development

-   Lecture 21  - Financial Capital Programs to Promote Economic Development