On 13 July, the Municipal Executive of Utrecht announced that from 1 August, for six weeks, virtually all available social rental homes will be made available to beneficiaries. These are asylum seekers whose application has been approved and who are therefore allowed to stay in the Netherlands for the time being. By urgently giving status holders a place, space is created further down the asylum chain. This is desperately needed because the shelter in Ter Apel is regularly overflowing. Asylum seekers are therefore sometimes forced to spend the night on the plastic chair or even have to sleep outside.
First homes and status holders matched in Utrecht: ‘The process is underway and we are working on it’
