Christiania threatened again…
2006.01.25
The title of this post says it all. Christiania, the collectively owned and administered village within Copenhagen since 1971, is threatened again by a government plan to build condominiums: this new plan proposes to build as many as 400 resident-owned properties in the enclave. It would be an effort to integrate the collectivity into the rest of Christiania…
In addition, current residents of Christiania would be forced to become members of a public housing organisation, and would likely have to begin paying a normal rent on their properties. Currently, adult residents pay DKK 250 per month to live in Christiania. The new rent would be between DKK 2500 and 4600 for a 50 sq. m apartment.
After coming to power in 2001, the government has taken an increasingly harder line on Christiania and its estimated 850 residents, closing its open-air hash market, Pusher Street, in 2004, and threatening to bulldoze the colony entirely.
Visit the “official” Christiania website and send a protest email to the Danish Prime Minister.
January 26th, 2006 - 10:51
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