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has accumulated to 400 000 kronor, a house shall be erected for that purpose,
and subsequently two others of a similar character.
In Gothenburg philanthropic housing enterprises were in operation many years
back. As early as 1847 to 1850 the City caused to be erected a number of
wooden houses, which were eventually taken over by the charitable institution
called Robert DicJcsons Stiftelse, founded in 1858 by the merchant Robert
Dickson, who died in 1858. The fund, which amounts to 330 000 kronoi, is
applied to the erection of dwellings for the poorer classes. The value of the
buildings owned by the institution amounts at the present time to about 950 000
kronor. The rent is 10 to 19 kronor a month for one room and a kitchen,
21 to 32 kronor a month for two rooms and a kitchen. The houses are
surrounded by spacious and neatly planted courtyards.
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Plan of the Ground Floor in a Philantropic Tenement House.
(The Stockholm Workmen’s Home Company).
Whereas in the case of the houses just referred to, it was the intention that
they should remain the property of the institution, in the case of the houses
erected conjointly by the Workmen s Dwellings Company and the Gothenburg
Savings-Bank they should pass into the hands of the tenants when the instalments
had been duly paid up. Building sites were purchased in 1873 by agreement with
the City, and by and by a hundred houses had been reared, most of them
"back-to-back" houses (dubbelhus). These houses, or rather half houses, were conveyed
to the tenants on the following terms: a lump sum down and payment of a
certain rent for twenty years, after which the house passed over into the
possession of the tenant. As, however, no measures had been taken to prevent
speculation, there happened what might have been expected: the rising prices of
the sites induced many a house-owner to pull down his house and to cover
the site, courtyard and all, with large tenements houses, so that the whole
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