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the "egna hem" ("oavn home") movement.
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like methods to the parcelling of the ground, avoiding the Scylla of
inordinate speculation, on the one hand, and the Charybdis of injudicious
philanthropy on the other.
Competent persons have been engaged in drawing up well-considered
schemes for the parcelling of estates intended for "settlements": the too
drastic parcelling of the ground has been sedulously avoided, the plan
adopted being a judicious mixture of small and largish allotments.
Several of these institutions have taken really very extensive measures,
considering the slenderness of their resources, for irrigation works and the
laying down of roads in the "settlements". In certain cases, and on the
whole with success, the company or society itself has superintended the
building operations in the settlements: by the purchase of materials on
uniform lines, by the adoption of standard types of buildings, by
bargaining with the builders for contracts to deliver completely finished
buildings for a batch of holdings, it has proved possible very appreciably
to reduce the costs of building.
Cottages. Jonsered, Västergötland.
The preliminary business connected with the estate having been
disposed of, some of these institutions have endeavoured to keep their eyes
on the development of the settlement, to provide educational facilities, to
organize unions, and to improve the soil, where necessary, by irrigation ^
works, manuring, and so forth.
The grand achievement of these enterprisesds the pioneer work they have
accomplished, often carried on under very precarious conditions. Their
economic resources have in many cases not sufficed for systematic
operations on a scale of some magnitude. However, the lines on which the
development has hitherto proceeded affords a fair ground of hope that
the capital the movement is so badly in need of for a more vigorous
development will now be forthcoming.
44—1.33179. Sweden. I.
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