More than 200 municipalities do not have a central reception for asylum seekers 
More asylum seekers and family members have come to the Netherlands since the corona pandemic. Every month, three to four thousand refugees report to be accommodated by the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA). Due to the closure of several locations, COA is faced with a shortage of reception places. Currently, COA has 109 locations available, spread across the country. The reception is not evenly distributed among municipalities. About 250 municipalities – including the municipality of Tubbergen for the time being – do not have a single reception location. The 60 permanent COA locations provide accommodation for 28 thousand people. In addition to the shelter in Ter Apel with 2,000 beds, the large locations are located in rural municipalities such as Budel (1,500), Gilze (1,200), Dronten and Luttelgeest (1,000 each). The 49 temporary places can together accommodate 10 thousand asylum seekers. Amsterdam (850 beds) and Leeuwarden (600) have the most temporary places. The 850 Amsterdam refugees are staying in A&O Hostel in Amsterdam South-East; 135 refugees have also been accommodated in the Van der Valk Hotel in Houten. The purchased hotel in Albergen, in the municipality of Tubbergen, may be added to this.
State Secretary Eric van der Burg (VVD), responsible for asylum reception, has been trying in recent months to encourage municipalities to find more places for COA locations. In addition, he has asked the security regions to create crisis emergency shelters, for example in sports halls. These are sometimes only in use for a few weeks and are not the responsibility of the COA. In total, the 25 security regions have created almost all 5,500 requested crisis emergency shelters. An additional 5,600 emergency places may be added. It is not known how this emergency shelter is distributed among the municipalities. In addition to the reception of asylum seekers, the municipalities together accommodate tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees. Almost all 60 thousand beds for Ukrainians are occupied.
Allocation of rental homes to status holders is fairly spread out 
After recognition of refugee status, refugees are eligible for social housing. Since 2017, municipalities have been allowed to decide for themselves whether status holders are given priority over other home seekers. After five years of decline, the number of rental homes allocated to status holders showed an upward trend in 2021. This increase is the direct result of the increased influx of asylum seekers and of family reunification after the corona period. The allocation of rental housing to beneficiaries is evenly distributed across the Netherlands. Each municipality has a target to allocate rental properties in proportion to the number of inhabitants. Most municipalities fail to achieve these goals. In order to make up for the existing backlog, all municipalities together must make 13,500 houses available in the second half of 2022. In recent years, roughly 1 in 10 vacant rental homes will go to a (family of) status holders. That percentage was slightly higher in 2021, but it is still a long way from the 2015 and 2016 allocations, when many Syrian refugees were given rental housing. In that period, 1 in 5 available rental homes went to a status holder.
No major differences are visible between regions. In recent years relatively few homes went to status holders around Utrecht and Ede-Wageningen, while around Amersfoort and the Veluwe relatively many homes were allocated to this group. However, the municipalities in this region also do not meet the targets: of the 15 municipalities here in 2021 only 5 helped the required number of status holders to find a home.