ABSTRACT
Since the world war the Danish housing policy has been able to ensure a sufficient supply of housing to cover housing need in Denmark. The relatively few without a dwelling are to a large degree maladjusted persons who are in need of a special type of dwelling. So when talking about homelessness one can say that the Danish housing policy has been a success. A report from the Danish National Institute of Social Research about homelessness has the paradoxical title Homeless With or Without a Dwelling. The immediate reaction to the above-mentioned figures may be that housing policy has succeeded in creating a sufficiently extensive and sufficiently varied supply of dwellings in Denmark. The general economic situation had, however, improved to the extent that the rules were modified in 1958; where after the right to deduct interest from the owners’ taxable income became the more ‘hidden’ subsidy of this type of dwelling.
