Re:Does Gentrification Cause a Reduction in Laundromats?
by henrikschroder on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:33AM
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In Sweden, a (free-for-tenants-to-use) shared laundry room (or in-apt laundry) has been legally mandated for all new apartment buildings since the 1940's, which is the reason there are no laundromats, and no coin-op laundry rooms either.
In any case, they aren't common in Denmark, though a few buildings have them. The basement is more often given over to bike parking and storage cages. In Copenhagen, coin laundromats are extremely common as a result. I go to one that's about 2 blocks away. It's getting more common for people to install an in-apartment washing machine if they remodel, though, and newly built buildings all come with the appropriate hookups installed.