Eight parties agreed Copenhagen’s 2027 budget on 3 September. Tucked inside it is an item called an outreach housing patrol: 6.8 million kroner a year from 2027 through 2030, 27.2 million in all, for staff who will inspect residential letting, issue administrative fines and also keep an eye on club rooms and rents set illegally high. A further 4.7 million a year goes to handling the cases that follow at the rent tribunal.
The rules being enforced are not new. A flat in Copenhagen may be let out for up to seventy days a year, and it has been that way for years. What the city has bought is the checking. Enforcement is usually the part that stays a sentence in an agreement text; here it has been given a budget, a four-year run and people who go out and look.
So…:
Which of your own rules would change if someone were paid to check them?
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Københavns Kommune (press) // Frederik Skafte Bjørn