Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property -- Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need -- Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet -- Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks -- Affective ownership : situating rights in desires -- The property...

"This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions : tenure decision making, neighbourhood decision making, housing prices, housing cycles, housing wealth effects, and housing satisfaction."