Talk:Million Programme

Questioning the meaning of million
The Million Program was actually dwellings consisting one million rooms. One million dwellings had been unrealistic considering the population of Sweden at the time: there would simply not have been any market! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.19.25 (talk • contribs) 09:12, March 10, 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, the plan was to build 1,000,000 dwellings, and the end result was a netto increase of about 650,000 due to many old housings were demolished as part of the development plans. These 1,000,000 are about 25% of the total number of available housings and apartments in Sweden, which sounds rather reasonable given a population of 9,000,000 (then about 8,000,000) --Strangnet 11:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Still, four million dwellings on a population of eight million sounds unrealistic to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.208.93.34 (talk) 14:35, 31 May 2007‎ (UTC)


 * Well, considering that the ratio of inhabitants per dwelling is about 2,5 in Sweden, that is not unrealistic... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.22.116 (talk) 19:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Don’t mix up past and present! The population of Sweden has grown by one million since 1975.  I see no reason why the number of dwellings should had remained constant during the last 33 years.  Furthermore, I see no reason to think that we have 400,000 empty dwellings in this country.  Four million dwellings on a population  of eight millions would have been an average of 2 inhabitants per dwelling.  This still seem unrealistic to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.19.102 (talk) 17:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you have any reliable sources supporting your view, that the name did not refer to the number of apartments that were planned to be built? Not everything dreamt up by politicans is or appear to be realistic. Tomas e (talk) 10:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * My point is that one million dwellings where never actually built. I don’t have any concrete sources but I do have good arguments for my case.  My dad has called the claim of one million dwellings “patently absurd” and explained to me how he thought.  Sweden had a population of about seven millions in 1965.  Unless at least 40% of the households lacked a home of their own adding one million dwellings would have exceeded the needs of the population.  Please remember that Sweden did not participate in the Second World War and as such was saved from the widespread devastation of infrastructure many other European countries suffered from.  You are right in that all thought up by politicians is not realistic.  However, I think only a totalitarian regime would be so out of touch with reality as to make such an extremely unrealistic decision.  It is simply not credible that the democratic Swedish government would decide to build one million dwellings considering the real-world standard of living at the time.  My dad claimed that they called it the “Million Program” just because they wanted to have the word “million” in the name.  The opposition asked why they did not call it “four million new walls” instead! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.229.19.183 (talk) 17:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Not part of Million Program
Kortedala and Biskopsgården were built in the fifties and are not Million programme. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.248.230.231 (talk) 22:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed Biskopsgården (Kortedala was already removed), and also Sävja (building started in early 80s) and Stenhagen (built early 90s and later). --83.255.57.204 (talk) 15:42, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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