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the housing problem.
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and in certain other towns the inspection of dwellings is carried out in other
modes.
Official Housing Bureaus, whose object it is to facilitate the letting of
dwellings, exist only at Sundsvall, Landskrona, and Malmö, besides which the Town
Council of Stockholm have made a preliminary investigation into the matter.
The municipalities extensively support housing enterprises of philanthropic
character, primarily by granting building loans and providing building sites, on
easy terms. Thus, for instance, the City of Stockholm has granted to societies
and companies loans of altogether 21/i million kronor, and provided sites with
a total area of 50 000 square meters. The loans have been granted at low
rates, on easy terms of repayment, and against the security of mortgages. As to
the buildings sites, they are either let out cheaply, or else sold on the terms
that the purchase sum shall be paid in the form of note of hand deposited at
interest and against the security of mortgages. In order to check speculation
and to provide a guarantee that the buildings sites shall really be used for the
purpose for which they were intended, it is laid down amongst other regulations,
that the dividend made by the Company shall not exceed 4 to 5 %, that the
rent shall not exceed a certain fixed maximum, and that the City is entitled
to call in the note of hand deposited as a security for the purchase sum.
Workmen’s dwellings in the North of Sweden (Munkfors Works).
Similar modes of granting building loans and providing building sites on easy
terms have also been practised at Gothenburg, and in a few other towns, such
as Västerås, Jönköping, and Linköping.
Of a more important character are the measures which have been taken to
support the "egna hem" movement (i. e. movement for one-family houses, owned
or leased for a long period by the resident himself; see the section on that
subject below.) The particular social and economic advantages attendant on small
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