The Hague selects three reception places for asylum seekers

Sources around the City Hall confirm that short-term emergency shelter there also comes a group of some 500 newly arrived asylum seekers.

From January 2016 the former Ministry will be converted into a residence for an unknown number of persons with refugee status. "It remains to be investigated how large the housing units to be exact," the source said.

Approximately 100 to 150 status holders are accommodated in a care complex former to the Scheveningseweg. Also, there has yet to be rebuilt. At the end of this week are about 40 underage asylum seekers in The Hague and who receive care at Parnassia in the Kiwi Street. There is also psychological counseling given to traumatized children.

Hague had initially planned to accommodate only status holders. Following an urgent appeal to the government last Friday at the municipal mayor Jozias van Aartsen agrees now with emergency shelter.

The city council has until late Monday deliberated about shelter locations and chops this morning the knot. The VVD would especially have trouble with the emergency until January of the 500 asylum seekers in the empty office of Social Affairs. If the VVD votes against, there is still a majority in the three locations. The VVD about with PvdA, D66, the Stadspartij and CDA in the college. The council talks Wednesday on the decision by the city administration.

The empty Julianakazerne in the Benoordenhout is temporarily dropped as a reception center.

The Hague's main reception center for Social Affairs is the first building of the National Real Estate Company which is made ​​suitable for rental housing. The government has early October, dozens of vacant government buildings, such as offices, prisons and barracks designated for temporary housing. In the refugee centers are now some 10,000 refugees who are waiting for housing.

This "plug" the new influx can not go in asylum centers. These people need to move to emergency shelters in all municipalities. Last Friday, the State and the municipalities agreed to the next half year 10,000 refugees with a residence permit transfer of asylum seekers to municipalities.

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