Immigrants’ moves into homeownership in Copenhagen: A longitudinal study

In the paper is examined the reasons for when and why immigrants in Greater Copenhagen move into homeownership after their 25th year based on data from the years 1990 to 2008 compared to residents with a Danish background. As for natives homeownership to a large extent is dependent on income, employment and family situation, and actual changes, but the importance of these factors differ from Danes. Different immigrant groups have a somewhat lower propensity to move into homeownership than Danes, which only to some extent can be explained by differences in income, education and employment. Living in social housing and in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods reduces the probability of moving into homeownership. But there are still some unexplained reasons for lower homeownership rate among immigrants. A probable hypothesis is that immigrants are more uncertain about their future employment and income. Some of them could be in doubt of if they will stay country.