Stuck in the middle? Danish social housing associations between state, market and civil society

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Abstract
This article analyses the political future of the social housing movement in Denmark. It argues that the social housing sector has lost the political identity, and hence legitimacy, derived from being a central party in post war welfare state building. It now needs to revise its political identity in order to survive in a changing political, social and economic environment. The article argues that the sector is caught in a cross fire between state, market and civil society regulation. In developing active, rather than re‐active, future strategies it therefore has to take a three dimensional dependency relation into account.