How high is the need in Ter Apel right now?
People no longer sleep outside, but it remains a shaky situation in Ter Apel. This is what a COA spokesperson said. “Every day, a few hundred people sign up. We have to place these people in a shelter at the end of the day. That remains a logistical puzzle.”
Recently, additional shelters have also been opened in the province of Utrecht. In Nieuwegein, for example, people are accommodated on a ship, in Lexmond flexible homes have been built. Both are locations where the shelter stays for at least four months. And that remains necessary, according to the COA. “We prefer to move refugees as little as possible. But that does not alter the fact that we are happy with every new location.”