Return to Home Page
 

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

  •  Secretary: Mary Santy 
     426 Eggers Hall
     Phone: 443-3115
     Email: mjsanty@maxwell.syr.edu

---

Course Overview and Requirements:

 

Syllabus

•    Spring 2008 Syllabus
  
   

Cases

•   Sign Up Sheet for Case Discussions

•   Case Assignments

•   Case Instructions

•   New York City Homeless Policy Case

•   Promoting Integration Case

•   Welfare Reauthorization Case

•   City School Reform Case

•   Economic Development 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

Required Reading

•   Notes on Housing Markets
   

•   Diagrams to Accompany Notes on Housing Markets (These are in Word
    and must be downloaded and printed)
   

•   Sanchez, Exasperated Cities Move to Curb or Expel the Homeless
   

•   Bernstein, Once Again, Trying Housing as a Cure for Homelessness
   

•   The New York Times, Ending Chronic Homelessness
   

•   Wade, Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations
   

•   Villarosa, "Races as the Same Machine in Different Colors"
   

•   Wade, "2 Scholarly Articles Diverge on Role of Race in Medicine"
   

•   (Optional) The Detroit News, The Cost of Segregation
   

•   Discrimination by Taxi Drivers in New York City
   

•   Notes on Segregation Indexes
   

•   Ross and Yinger, Looking the Other Way 
   

•   Goering, Feins and Richardson, "What Have We Learned about Housing
    Mobility and Poverty Deconcentration?"
   

•   Weil and Finegold, "Introduction"
   

•   Holcomb and Martinson, "Putting Policy into Practice: Five Years of
    Welfare Reform"
   

•   Loprest, "Making the Transition from Welfare to Work: Successes but
    Continuing Concerns"
   

          Exams

•   Final Exam from 1997
   

•   Final Exam from 1998
   

•   Final Exam from 1999