Homelessness, Property Rights, and Institutional Logics

James Rycroft and John Luiz

No 750, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: We explore whether there is evidence of property rights amongst the homeless, and if so, how these rights are governed. We show that although the homeless are able to derive some value from assets, and can exclude other members of their community, these rights are precarious and dependent upon state agents not seizing the “property†[…]

Keywords: Institutional Economics; Monetary Policy; Urbanisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K00 K11 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-01
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