Shared ownership: The socialisation or privatisation of housing?

Privatisation and Indigenous Ownership: Evidence from Africa

: In recent years, privatization has become common across Africa, reversing the long-term growth in state ownership of business enterprises. Many have interpreted this as entailing the abandonment of the developmental objectives that state enterprises were established to pursue. Others, however, have suggested that the privatization process can itself provide a new means through which the same ...

Mutual ownership: privatisation under a different name?

Algorithms for Fair Shared Ownership

With the rise of the internet, entire economic transactions can now be completed without a single physical interaction. These transactions occur at an unprecedented scale, often without a human in the loop. This paradigm shift brings with it many exciting opportunities to transform our economic institutions into ones that, if designed correctly, are more efficient and lead to fairer outcomes. T...

Towards Shared Ownership in the Cloud

Cloud storage platforms promise a convenient way for users to share files and engage in collaborations, yet they require all files to have a single owner who unilaterally makes access control decisions. Existing clouds are, thus, agnostic to the notion of shared ownership. This can be a significant limitation in many collaborations because, for example, one owner can delete files and revoke acc...

The Regulation of Immobile Housing Assets Under Divided Ownership

The paper analyses a particular type of housing arrangement between owner of a housing unit and owner of the land on which it is sited, where the unit is partially or totally immobile. While the focus is on mobile-home parks, the analysis is also applicable to certain condominium and cooperative housing. After exploring reasons for divided asset ownership, the possibility that divided ownership...