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v. social movements.
As regards affording facilities for the creation of small holdings, the
"Egna Hem" movement is entirely dependent on State aid.
As to "egna hem" in the shape of dwellings, what the State aims at
is the actual country and the rural working population (including artisans),
regarding this movement as a link in its efforts to check the outflow of
the population from the country to the towns and town-like communities,
as well as emigration to foreign countries.
However, as will be gathered from the figures given above, the number
of "egna hem" in the nature of dwellings which have been created thanks
to the financial aid of the State is only half the number of small holdings
created in virtue of that aid; and, in point of fact, the loans proffered by
the State are, under the regulations now in force, primarily intended
for the establishment of small holdings.
However, quite independently of State measures, private initiative has
accomplished much in the way of providing dwellings for people of
small means.
The endeavours of the monied classes to fashion for themselves "homes
of their own", in English style, beyond the purlieus of the crowded city,
have thrown their weight into the scale.
In the environs of the capital, particularly, there have sprung up, at
the bidding of well-capitalized business enterprises, several modern and
well-ordered villa communities, such as Djursholm, Saltsjöbaden, Lidingö
Villastad, (Villa Town), and others.
There exist also enterprises for the poorer classes, though the villa
communities which have been founded with that object — only excepting Solhem
just outside Stockholm — can scarcely be said to be up to the mark in point
of quality. In the first place, aimless and wanton speculation in building
sites has in certain places, and particularly in the environs of Stockholm,
frittered away capital which might have been more judiciously invested;
secondly, the growth of these communities has been stunted by the lack
of adequate facilities of communication; finally, but too few of these villa
communities have commanded the resources in capital necessary for
carrying to a satisfactory consummation the enterprises they had taken in
hand.
In certain cases, well-ordered "egna hem" communities for the labouring
classes have been established by the efforts of State and municipality.
Take, for an instance, the "egna hem" at Trollhättan, erected for the
workmen employed at the Canal Water works, or the model
"workmen’s town", planned on an ample scale, reared by the City of Stockholm
at Enskede, half an hour’s journey southwards of the capital.
But far greater importance must be accorded to the endeavours made
by a number of Swedish industrial enterprises in the country districts to
provide "homes of their own" for the workmen in their employ.
In many Swedish industrial works the needs of the workmen in the
matter of dwellings were supplied years ago. As some of these works are
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