The transfer of families from asylum seekers’ centers to municipalities is chaotic. Since last week, municipalities have been assigned to asylum seekers at a rapid pace and are placing them in small homes, taking risks with fire safety. This is evident from both internal emails about the transfers and from reactions from municipalities.
The operation is an emergency measure of outgoing minister Mona Keijzer (asylum and migration, BBB) to make room in the shelter. Local that causes unrest. In Tilburg, for example, a family of fifteen n00s has been placed in “one small home with two bedrooms,” the municipality writes in a fire letter in the hands of NRC.
According to the municipality, other families were also forced to be placed in small homes. “We will be faced with a devil’s dilemma in these situations of over -housing: we are responsible for the safety of our residents and have to prevent people from ending up on the street,” writes the municipality.
Last week the COA municipalities overwhelmed with an e -mail in which it said that the same week started to start with nastyizers putting off
The Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) confirms the problems with Keijzer’s measure. “We get a lot of signals that native people in large groups are sent to their sponsor in municipalities, while there is no suitable place for them,” said a spokesperson for the umbrella organization. “We fear unacceptable and unsafe situations.”
According to the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers, the measure is ‘not ideal’. It acknowledges that it can lead to ‘over -occupancy’, but says it only puts families if their living situation does not deteriorate. If the situation in a home is’ worse ” then in the COA shelter, where people often have to share a living space with eight (strange) people, “then they can stay in the shelter according to the COA.
Sources at municipalities indicate that the living situation in a municipality cannot be compared with that in the asylum shelter. A status holder and his family can be put out of the house by the landlord or housing association in over -house. That way they can end up on the street.
Two thousand
Last week the COA municipalities overwhelmed with an e-mail in which the announcement announced that he was starting the same week with the relocation of native. It concerned about two thousand asylum seekers, especially women and children, who came to the Netherlands in the context of family reunification. Municipalities had to place these families of up to six people with their family member, “or else in a hotel or other housing,” said COA.
Two days later a second letter followed, from the highest official of the Ministry of Asylum and Migration. It stated that the ‘Focus’ would be on small families of one to two n00 – in total a few hundred people. There was no longer mentioned about larger families, up to six members. This causes confusion for municipalities about the size of the operation.
The VNG is investigating how things are currently doing in other municipalities. De Koepel hopes to get clarity soon “about this somewhat messy procedure.”
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