Hertsön is a residential area in
Luleå
Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...
,
Sweden
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. It had 5,436 inhabitants in 2010,
making it one of the largest districts in Luleå.
The district was built in the 1970s as part of the
Million Programme
The Million Programme () was a large public housing program implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to ensure the availability of affordable, high-quality housing to all Swedish citizens. Th ...
, due to the planned construction of a new
steel mill
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-fini ...
(Stålverk 80, a major expansion of the existing ''Norrbottens Järnverk'' steelworks), which was expected to give the city a large increase in population. As the plans of the new steel mill were binned, following the victory of the centre/right-wing coalition in the
general election
A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from By-election, by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. Gener ...
of 1976, there have periodically been many empty apartments in the area.
References
External links
Hertsönat Luleå Municipality
Luleå
Million Programme
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