Copenhagen launches experimental housing project for communities, vulnerable youth

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Copenhagen has launched an experimental housing project in cooperation with Danske Funktionærs Boligselskab (DFB) public housing company and Domea.dk housing management company.

The project, launched under Mayor of Copenhagen Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, will include housing communities, family housing, youth housing, affordable housing and housing for young homeless people.

Line Barfod, Mayor of Technology and Environment, pointed out that Copenhagen has limited room and resources to build homes, stressing the importance of rethinking current models.

She noted that more things are shared in housing communities, which allows more people to live in less space and require fewer resources. This offers a solution to some modern challenges of urbanisation, Barfod added and stressed “we strengthen the cohesion of the community when we mix the housing.”

Ministry of the Interior and Housing approved the project as an experiment to boost social inclusion, noting that it will include hosing for single parents. One of the goals is to investigate and develop community-supported housing for single parents in urban settings.

Mette Mogensen, a housing development manager at Domea.dk, pointed out “our ambition is to create a form of living that challenges the conventional thinking that a family consists of father, mother and two children.”

She noted that some parents live one week with their children and one week without them, which is why some homes will be built with a high degree of flexibility.

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