In forceElderly and housing
New rules for grants for particularly affordable social housing
Official title (in Danish): Bekendtgørelse om engangstilskud til etablering af særligt billige almene familieboliger til boligsøgende med et akut boligbehov og en lav betalingsevne
In short
Reading time: 1 min- What changes:
- The Danish Social and Housing Agency now grants one-off grants for establishing particularly affordable social family housing, instead of the municipal council granting an annual grant for rent reductions.
- The grant is 500,000 DKK, compared with 400,000 DKK previously (2021 price level) per dwelling, and the amount is adjusted each year in line with the development in the net price index.
- The municipality can now apply up to and including 30 November 2031, compared with 30 November 2027 previously.
- The municipality must still exercise the right of referral for the number of dwellings that have received a grant (previously it applied from when the dwellings were put into use), and the social housing department must make vacant dwellings of no more than 55 m2 available to the municipality.
- When: The executive order entered into force on 4 September 2026.
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Source: Retsinformation.dk
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- Issued · 1 September 2026
- Published in the Danish Law Gazette (Lovtidende) · 2 September 2026
- In force · 4 September 2026