Displacement by Design: Resisting Denmark's Race-based Housing Laws

For more than five years, the Danish government has been advancing a bundle of policies and laws that it dubbed the “Ghetto Package”—all aimed at eradicating the existence in Denmark of urban neighborhoods where a majority of residents are classed by the government as "non-Western".

Mjølnerparken, a housing development in Copenhagen, is one of the areas where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes as a result. But its residents decided to use the law to fight back, arguing in the courts that the government's housing policy, and its use of the classification "non-Western", breaches European Union anti-discrimination law.

This is the story of people—lawful residents—being forced to leave their homes because of government policies shaped by racial discrimination. It is told in their own words. It is the story of an injustice that must not be repeated.