Ministers slam Copenhagen City Hall’s handling of allotment owners turned property millionaires. Mayors who kept quiet are now scrambling to shift the blame.

Allotment owners’ windfalls spark a bitter fight in Copenhagen’s election campaign

In Havebyen Mozart in Copenhagen’s Sydhavn, residents lived illegally in the houses for many years and didn’t pay property tax like other homeowners. Then the municipality gave them permission to stay. Now a house can sell for between 4 and 7 million DKK. Foto: Martin Lehmann
In Havebyen Mozart in Copenhagen’s Sydhavn, residents lived illegally in the houses for many years and didn’t pay property tax like other homeowners. Then the municipality gave them permission to stay. Now a house can sell for between 4 and 7 million DKK. Foto: Martin Lehmann
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Just before the municipal elections, the debate about Copenhagen’s allotment gardens has erupted.

Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard (S) and Minister for Urban and Rural Districts, Morten Dahlin (V), accuse Copenhagen’s Mayor of Technical and Environmental Affairs, Line Barfod from Enhedslisten, of enriching a group of allotment garden owners who have illegally lived in their garden houses for years.

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