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the housing problem.
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original intention was frustrated. The entire enterprise has long since come to
a complete standstill.
Workmen’s dwellings have been erected by philanthropic societies also in
some of the smaller towns. Thus, for instance, Sundsvall’s Workmen’s Dwellings
Company at Sundsvall, and The Company Goclthem at Jönköping.
A place apart must be assigned to the measures adopted to procure
satisfactory dwellings for unmarried men and women. As to ummarried men,
lodgings have been provided for them in those small hotels, situated mostly in
dingy back alleys, called "ungkarlshotell", that is "bachelors hotels". These hotels
are by no means of a philanthropic character, but are business undertakings
pure and simple. In Stockholm it has been estimated that from two to three
thousand men are thrown upon the "ungkarlshotells" for a night’s lodging in the
winter. Grave complaints have been levelled against them, and some of them
at any rate are perfect hotbeds of moral and physical disease. And in fact
the City of Stockholm has resolved to erect an "ungkarlshotell" under its own
auspices, though the actual form which it is to assume has not yet been resolved
on. At Gothenburg an "ungkarlshotell" has been erected by a philantropic
society in an old building.
As to unmarried women several enterprises have been set on foot. At
Stockholm the society called Hem för Arbeterskor (Home for Women Workers) has
built two homes accommodating altogether 110 inmates. The object of the
homes is to counteract the living-in system (inneboendesystemet) by providing
cheap and cosy dwellings for solitary young women of the working classes, and
affording them facilities for a healthy home life and refined amusements.
Moreover, thanks to a gift of 460 000 kronor, proceeding from an anonymous
donor, to the City of Stockholm, a large edifice containing homes for working
women has been erected at 35 Dalagatan, Stockholm. There are also similar
homes for working women in other places, for example at Norrköping, Malmö,
and other towns.
Dwellings erected by Employers. A special interest as regards the
solution of the housing problem attaches obviously to employers. The
efficiency of their working staff is to a certain extent dependent on their
labourers having access to cheap and sanitary dwellings. In point of
fact, the employers have in many places been active, either by erecting
dwellings and letting them free of cost or cheaply to the workmen in
their employ, or else by granting building loans and selling building sites
on easy terms. The latter method appears to growing more and more
common: a workmen likes to be independent as far as concerns his
dwelling.
In the larger towns measures of this nature on the part of employers are,
as might have been expected, few and far between. At Stockholm the
Rörstrand Porcelain Factory and the Bolinder Mechanical Works have procured
dwellings for their workmen on quite an ample scale, and at Gothenburg one
notes particularly the workmen’s dwellings erected by the porter brewery,
Carnegie & Co.
However, it is obviously the industrial enterprises located in the very small
towns and in the country that have principally contributed to procure dwellings
for their labourers. A few examples will serve to show that they have set
this about along different lines.
At the Grängesberg Mining-field in Bergslagen he Company has erected 479
dwellings of different types. Most of the houses contain four flats consisting
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