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v. social movements.
manifestly formed on a Danish pattern. The members paid certain weekly
contributions for 10 years, and then were entitled to take part in a kind of
house lottery. The members being numerous, and the sites purchased
from the City cheap, the Association managed to erect 24 houses; they
were built of the type known as "landshövdingshus" (provincial Governor’s
House), that is with the lower storey of stone, and the upper of wood, an
arrangement which has proved particularly satisfactory at Gothenburg. When
the dearth of dwellings began to decrease, the association was dissolved, and a
considerable reserve fund, in spite of remonstrances on the part of many,
distributed among the members. The favourable economic results of this
enterprise have caused a number of smaller societies of a similar kind to be started,
both in Gothenburg, where their number is estimated at about 200, and at
several other places.
In recent times societies of other types have arisen, chiefly with the object
of building "egna hem". These societies are to be found chiefly in the suburbs
of larger towns, and in the outskirts of smaller towns. For example at Västerås
there have been formed societies the object of which is to purchase suitable
areas for building ground, which are subsequently parcelled into sites that are
purchased by the members. When this mission has been fulfilled, the Society
dissolves, or contents itself with attending to certain duties such as scavenging,
road-making, and the like. In other quarters there have been formed "egna
hem" associations which assist their members both with regard to building sites
and building materials.
With regard to State loans in aid of small dwellings see the section: "The
Egna Hem" Movement.
Philanthropic Housing! Enterprises. In the work which has been
accomplished in furtherance of cheap dwellings, a prominent place is
assumed by the philanthropic housing enterprises, altogether their efforts
have been confined mainly to the larger towns and their immediate
vicinity.
By the enterprises of this kind that are in receipt of aid from the
City of Stockholm there had been erected at the close of 1910 1 661
dwellings, out of which 913 with one room and a kitchen, 500 with one room
only, and so forth. The average rent for a room was 178 kronor, for one
room and a kitchen 253 kronor. In these dwellings 6 421 persons were
accomodated.
Some of the most important enterprises of this kind shall be enumerated
below.
One of the very oldest is the The Workmen’s Dwellings Fund in Memory of
the 9th of Februari 1853, which has erected, with the aid of State loans,
several large houses with small flats. The St. Erie Building Company was
established as long ago as 1875, and has erected dwellings for workmen in several
parts of the town. The Cheap Dwellings Company has erected 5 one-storey
houses, in which single rooms are let out at the rate of ten kronor a month. But far
greater importance must be attached to The Stockholm Workmen’s Home Company.
That Company which was established in 1892 at the instance of Fröken Agnes
Lagerstedt, has for its object not merely to build dwellings but also to contribute
in various ways to the economical and moral welfare of the inmates. Advice and
assistance is proferred through the medium of ladies, acting as landlord’s
deputies, who take up their residence in the Company’s houses; sickness benefit
societies are formed among the tenants; cooperative shops, children’s workshops
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