ABSTRACT
Owner-occupation no longer enjoyed total primacy over other tenures but continued to represent a popular choice for families and economically secure households. Many owner-occupiers faced falling real values for their property, difficulties in selling and high costs. Non-profit housing companies offered intensive, tenant-controlled responsive management and high-quality maintenance for the large groups of needy households. They would play a growing role in the inner-city renewal and their unpopular ‘concrete’ stock would house more and more marginal households because the outer estates were often intrinsically unattractive and because poorer groups were squeezed out of older housing as it was renovated. Housing companies faced an uphill battle in keeping anything like a cross-section of Danish society in the some areas. There would be growing pressures and problems as the tenants’ democracy lived through the problems of exclusion and under-representation by the marginal groups.
