Until now, municipalities have volunteered in emergency situations, but after repeated calls from the cabinet to municipalities to create more places, there are still about 2000 places short.
Measures
‘Without more far-reaching measures’, an unacceptable situation threatens to arise, Broekers-Knol writes. “That means that measures must be taken that guarantee extra reception places.”
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But she is not reporting what these more far-reaching measures entail exactly, but will announce them in the short term. A spokesperson for the state secretary could not say whether municipalities will now be obliged to create shelters. Earlier, Broekers-Knol called this ‘very undesirable’.
Recently, 8,500 extra places have been arranged as emergency shelters, including in event halls, in hotels and on defense sites.
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