Tag: homeless
Municipality of Utrecht opens winter shelter for homeless people due to low temperatures
For example, it is difficult for the municipality to estimate how many beds are needed for the winter shelter. Especially labor migrants, who are in the Netherlands for work, are…
City backs down in bylaw dispute with downtown church helping homeless
News Local News City hall has backed down in a controversial bylaw dispute that threatened a church and charity’s efforts to feed and help homeless people. People line up outside…
‘Situation homeless around Utrecht Central is degrading’
Lately, homeless people have been spending the night around Utrecht Central again more often. Ilse Raaijmakers, councilor of the PvdA in Utrecht, calls the situation “inhumane”, in an open letter…
Poverty: parents of students and associations mobilized for homeless children
Every evening in France, nearly 2,000 children sleep rough for lack of space in emergency accommodation already saturated with requests. Questioned by the associations, the government, which had committed on…
In France, 620 homeless people died on the streets in 2021
The homeless (SDF) live on the streets and unfortunately also die there. Identifying these “outside society” deaths is not a common statistic, it is the work of the collective Les…
Canada: Shooting at homeless – two dead
Two people have been killed in a shooting in Langley, Canada. Two more people are seriously injured. The suspected perpetrator has been shot dead by the police. The shootings took…
This is how the Soepfiets helps homeless people in Utrecht: ‘You will look at the city in a completely different way’
It’s been a scorching hot summer day and the stuffiness still lingers in the city at around 7pm. We just cycled into park Lepelenburg. Jeroen rides the Soepfiets, an electrically…
Heat wave: the homeless face the heat
Temperatures reached historic records in France at the start of the week. Among the populations who suffer the most from dehydration, there are homeless people, especially since associations sometimes close…
Dutch minister disguised to see the problems of the homeless on the spot, spent the night in the dormitory
Maarten van Ooijen, 32, decided to take a disguise to examine the problems of the homeless in the country closely and to see how the centers where the homeless spend…
Demonstration in Paris for the reception of homeless migrants in centers for Ukrainians
In France, centers reserved for Ukrainian migrants are partially empty. However, the state refuses to open them to other homeless migrants without accommodation. This blockage is denounced by the Paris…