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the housing problem.
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much crowded, owing to the pernicious habit of the country people of
huddling together into a single room, even when the dwelling boast of several.
The absence of any sort of supervision of dwellings is badly felt in the country
as well as in the cities. Latterly, however, there is noticeable a distinct
tendency towards ameliorating these conditions.
Workmen’s "Egna liem", in Central Sweden (Åtvidaberg Factories).
A complex and knotty problem sucb as this obviously calls for many
different kinds of specifics. An account shall be given in the following
pages of the most important measures that have been adopted from
different quarters.
State Measures. On the part of the State, the housing problem has been
made the object of various sweeping measures. Thus, in 1907 the Town
Planning Act authorized the urban communities to regulate and supervise
building matters, while, under that Act, the proprietors of sites were obliged
to defray a considerable portion of the costs incurred in the execution of
the town plan. Further, the Renting Act of 1907 has clearly defined the
legal rights of tenants as against the landlords, and considerably
extended the rights of the former. The Ground Lease1 Act has endeavoured
to create a new system of leasing building sites, which the object of
obviating undue speculation and the consequent rise of prices in the dwellings
1 "Tomträtt", cf. below.
43—133179. Sweden. I.
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