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The dream of having your own home he lives strongly with the Swedish people. About 7 in 10 Swedes say they want to live in their own single-family home, and among those in their infancy, the proportion is even higher. Despite this, the construction of single-family homes has slowed down in our large and medium-sized cities. Strong forces in both the construction industry and the architectural corps have preferred to build high-rise buildings, and in municipal politics they have been too bad to take the initiative and defend the wishes of the citizens. The result has been skyrocketing land prices and the fact that ordinary working families are finding it increasingly difficult to buy their own home. Between 1970 and 2000, the median price of a single-family home was between three and four annual wages for a typical worker. Today, there are up to eight annual salaries and in Stockholm County fifteen annual salaries. Today, the villa is on its way to becoming a luxury product for high-income people.
But it shouldn’t be the case that kids have to have wealthy parents in order to run through the sprinkler on their own lawn. At the beginning of the last century, the single-family housing movement was created to promote the construction of new garden cities and single-family homes for the common people. As representatives of the Christian Democrats at the municipal, regional and national levels, we now promise to contribute to the creation of a new property owners movement.
