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New cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen are rare. But this rental property with 72 apartments centrally located on Amager can, with the help of the municipality, become a cooperative housing association if at least 60 percent of the tenants are willing to participate. Foto: Miriam Dalsgaard

A group of tenants in Amager hopes to take over their property as a cooperative housing association with the municipality as support. And more are on the way. Expert calls it a gamechanger.

Copenhagen Municipality invests in new cooperative housing, and it could be a gamechanger

New cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen are rare. But this rental property with 72 apartments centrally located on Amager can, with the help of the municipality, become a cooperative housing association if at least 60 percent of the tenants are willing to participate. Foto: Miriam Dalsgaard
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Around the dining table in Helle Dittmann’s living room in Amager, three people are on a mission.

If all goes as planned, the 72 rental apartments in the building at Skotlands Plads, where they live, could be converted into cooperative housing by Christmas. Price: approximately 308,000 kroner for a three-room apartment.

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