Denmark's 'hard ghettos' row reaches Supreme Court
The court will weigh whether the policy’s non-Western criterion discriminates against tenants, as about 11,000 people may be rehoused by 2030, tenants’ groups said.
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A high-profile case is now being heard in Denmark's Supreme Court after Danes classified as "non-Western" were evicted. If the tenants are right, it could have consequences for the country's so-called "ghetto laws."
Law establishes criteria for areas of "transformation" - or old social neighborhoods - to have population of various origins. Legislation served as an argument for the eviction of foreigners.
With an ambiguous statement from the European Court of Justice and the Danish Institute for Human Rights behind them, seven former residents are trying to get the Supreme Court to declare the termination of their lease illegal. If successful, they believe it will be a bombshell under the Ghetto Act.
Denmark's 'hard ghettos' row reaches Supreme Court
The seven families from Helsingor, north of Copenhagen, had their leases terminated in 2022 under a 2018 law that says all social housing estates where more than half of residents are "non-Western" must rebuild, renovate and change the social mix by renting at least 60 percent of the homes at market rates by 2030. "Non-Western" is one criterion the government uses to define "transformation areas", which it previously termed "hard ghettos". The p…
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