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Welfare workers have a strong presence in Copenhagen’s co-op housing market, but this affordable option is dwindling.

They can't afford to live in Copenhagen – except here

With careers as a social and healthcare assistant and a nurse, Frederik and Diana Kaufmann can find work anywhere in the country. However, they are happy with their current jobs in the capital and plan to stay in Copenhagen for now. They can afford it because they found a co-op apartment. Foto: Finn Frandsen
With careers as a social and healthcare assistant and a nurse, Frederik and Diana Kaufmann can find work anywhere in the country. However, they are happy with their current jobs in the capital and plan to stay in Copenhagen for now. They can afford it because they found a co-op apartment. Foto: Finn Frandsen
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The apartment in the Holmbladsgade neighborhood of Amager is ideally located for Frederik and Diana Kaufmann’s workplaces:

He bikes to his job as a social and healthcare assistant in home care at the elderly housing development Guldbergs Have in Nørrebro. She has just a few hundred meters to the bus heading towards Tårnby, where she works as an educational advisor for the municipality.

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