Today’s big topic: Copenhagen Municipality buys into new cooperative housing associations
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.
What’s happening?
Hundreds of new cooperative housing associations could emerge in Copenhagen soon.
The City Council has unanimously decided to kickstart the establishment of cooperative housing associations by supporting tenants in buying their properties. Copenhagen Municipality has revisited a law from 1980 that allows it to jointly purchase private apartment complexes with tenants to establish cooperative housing associations.
For instance, the municipality is considering buying 40 percent of an apartment complex in Amager, provided 60 percent of the tenants are willing to participate in the purchase.
»For me, there would be great security in becoming a co-owner instead of renting. Otherwise, I’m not sure I can afford to live here as a pensioner«, says Louise Andersen, one of the tenants.
Why it matters!
Despite the sky-high demand for cooperative housing, very few new associations have been established in Copenhagen in the past ten years. The explanation includes stricter requirements for residents’ finances.
Copenhagen Municipality’s support for cooperative housing associations based on a 45-year-old provision has enormous potential to become a gamechanger over time for a challenged cooperative housing sector that is not growing. This is assessed by Marc Lund Andersen, chief economist at the independent Knowledge Centre of Housing Economics.
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In other news
– The government wants to provide adults with financial support for dental visits
The dental health of Danes needs to be improved. Therefore, the government will establish a dental account for Danes, so they can receive financial support for at least one dental check-up per year. For example, young people between the ages of 22 and 25 will annually receive 600 kroner in their dental account. Adults between the ages of 35 and 60 will annually receive 450 kroner, while seniors over the age of 80 will annually have 850 kroner available.
This is stated in a press release from the Ministry of the Interior and Health.
– 22-year-old Dane killed at the front in Ukraine
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed TV 2 via email that a 22-year-old Danish soldier has died at the front in Ukraine. The number of Danes who have died or gone missing in the war in Ukraine has now reached six. It is unclear when and under what circumstances the 22-year-old passed away. Due to confidentiality obligations, the ministry will not provide further details on the matter, reports the news agency Ritzau.
– Denmark’s handball women beat Hungary
Hungary was on its way to defeating Denmark on Sunday at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena when national coach Helle Thomsen made a few adjustments. Among other things, she took Anna Kristensen out and put Amalie Milling in goal. This helped turn the game around, which Denmark won 28-27, thereby securing first place in the main round.
Denmark will play the quarterfinals on Wednesday, but the opponent will not be determined until Monday evening when the Netherlands and France face each other.
Talk of town: Delivery company used to store drugs and weapons
It is associated with a certain risk to store hard drugs and weapons. But criminals have now found a creative solution to this.
The delivery company Dao tells Jyllands-Posten that the company is being exploited as an involuntary warehouse and that there is very little they can do about it.
In Denmark, you can send and receive packages completely anonymously. It only requires a phone number and an email address to send a package with, for example, Dao. And if the criminals use a fake email address, a prepaid phone card, and some cash, they can anonymously drop off packages with weapons or drugs and send the goods through Dao’s system.
Dao is not allowed to check what even the most suspicious packages contain. The postal law dictates mail secrecy, which means there are very restrictive rules for when Dao can open or scan a package.
Read the full article here.
This newsletter features stories originally published in Danish. AI was used to shorten and translate the articles into English, after which a member of the editorial staff reviewed and refined the content.