“The welfare society is fundamentally a community, which is based on a mutual trust that we all contribute,” Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said in March at a summit of the country’s municipalities. That means more than 4,000 public housing units will need to be emptied or torn down. The decision of which housing remains public will be made by local governments and housing associations. The residents displaced are offered alternative public housing options in other buildings or neighborhoods. From the beginning, the program’s targeting of communities largely based on the presence of non-Western immigrants or their descendants has attracted widespread criticism.

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Persons: Mette Frederiksen, Vollsmose Locations: country’s