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v. social movements.
For obvious reasons the housing problem is a most burning one in the
larger cities and rapidly developing industrial communities. In these
places private building enterprise has failed in achieving a
satisfactory-solution of the problem in regard to the masses of workers who flock
thither, and extensive measures from other quarters have proved to be
imperatively necessary.
Workmen’s Homes in the South of Sweden (Höganäs Mines).
How necessary these measures actually are will be best realized by
examining the conditions in the capital. During the period from 1870 to 1885
the rents in Stockholm rose by about 60%; during the period from 1886 to
1893, when there was a plethora of dwellings they fell, it is true, about 25 to
30 %; but from 1894 to 1910 they have again increased by about 70 ’/,.
Whereas the average sum per hearth in 1894 was 118 kronor, it had risen in
1910 to 199 kronor.
Fortunately this state of things is not so alarming everywhere in Sweden.
According to the data compiled by the Social Board, the average rent in 1911
for one room and a kitchen in Stockholm was 342 kronor, whereas for a
number of large and small communities over the whole of Sweden it was 161
kronor. The corresponding figures for dwellings of two rooms and a kitchen were
526 and 268 kronor respectively. The rents of dwellings were comparatively
high in the north of Sweden; the lowest rents were found in Småland and in
the islands (Öland, Gottland, etc.), being 196 and 128 kronor respectively for
one room and a kitchen. A statistical compilation drawn up in 1909 shows
that the rents of dwellings consisting of two rooms and a kitchen were highest
in Stockholm and Kiruna (540 and 482 kronor respectively), lowest in Falun
and Kalmar (209 and 196 kronor respectively). More detailed statistics on
this subject are not at present available.
In the genuine country the dwelling-problem obviously assumes a totally
different character than in the towns and industrial communities. There, it is
not the amount of the rents, but the character of the dwellings that is the
essential matter. A number of workmen’s dwellings in the country are wretr
chedly built and as wretchedly equipped; what is more, these dwellings are very
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