For decades, Denmark has had one of Europe's most restrictive immigration policies, with populist right-wing parties often stoking anti-immigrant rhetoric.
File: People protest against the tightening of Denmark’s migration policy and the deportation orders in Copenhagen. Photo: AP
"Even though I was born and raised in Denmark, in the statistics I'm a non-Western immigrant," the 29-year-old told the AFP news agency. "Our apartments are not for sale!" said banners strung across Mjolnerparken, with locals saying that using their ethnicity to decide where they can live is discriminatory and illegal.
Experts say some 11,000 people across Denmark will have to leave their apartments and find new housing elsewhere in the next seven years.
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