Inadequate housing market filtering in a city with increasing population

It has been an experience from many countries that housing construction in general is too low and that housing demand from the lower income groups are not satisfied. Housing supply for poor people is dependent on that higher income groups move to new construction and leave cheaper housing in the older stock available for lower income groups, a process called filtering. The research literature shows that this process does not function in a sufficient way due to malfunctions in the housing market (Skifter Andersen 2023). In this article is shown that new construction in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, does not provide filtering enough to improve the housing situation of poor people in the city.