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the "egna hem" ("oavn home") movement.
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the towns. As regards dwellings in towns, it should be noted that in
Sweden the vast majority live in flats, and only a very small number of
families have a house to themselves.
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The chief difficulty which was at first encountered in Sweden in
providing facilities for families of small means to establish homes of their
owns lay in the obstacles which the law put in the way of parcelling
the ground into small lots. Legislative measures intended to remove these
obstacles were, however, in course of time brought forward, some of
them at a comparatively early date. As far back as 1864 previous
regulations as to the minimum area of ground that it was permissible
to sever off from an estate were abolished. And finally by the Ground
Parcelling Act (ägostyckningsinstitut) of 1896, a new mode of
parcelling the ground was introduced.
Small Farm Cottage, Bankesta, Södermanland.
The earliest measures on the part of the State that may be regarded
as directly relative to the subject in hand were sales of ground from State
agricultural demesnes, for the purpose of establishing thereon "egna hem".
After repeated proposals in the Riksdag and exhaustive
investigations by a Committee expressly appointed for the purpose, the
Riksdag in 1894 passed a law whereby small holdings might be
severed off from the Crown demesnes and sold on favourable terms to
people of small means desirous of procuring "homes of their own". However,
chiefly owing to defects of organization, these sales did not assume any
great dimensions. Up to 1909 inclusive, only about 1 500 holdings had
been disposed of by the State under the provisions of the Act of 1894.
In 1909 a Government Bill was brought before the Riksdag providing
for new regulations on the subject, the aim of which was (1) to check
undue speculation in holdings vended by the State, and (2) by dint of
easier rates of payment, to facilitate the acquisition of these holdings
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