ABSTRACT
While social housing companies became the major providers of new rented housing in the post-war period, nearly three-quarters of all new housing was provided through private building.
Owner-occupation had already become popular in urban areas before the war. After the war, government incentives to all kinds of housing investors encouraged the spread of single-family, owner-occupied houses. Whereas in pre-war Denmark nearly 100 per cent of urban housing was in flats, by 1970 over 70 per cent of it was in single-family houses for owner-occupation. The ‘villa’ style dominated, and rows of detached family houses, often with only two metres in between, were built in sprawling suburbs. Owner-occupied housing was normally timber or brick-built and much more traditional in appearance than social housing, even though industrially made components and fittings were widely used.
