Overview

• The city council is scheduled to vote on plans to purchase and convert a Niddastraße 76 property into a crack consumption and support center.
• The facility would offer showers, a clothing bank, medical treatment, wound care, safe consumption rooms, counseling and temporary shelter.
• Services will be reserved for Frankfurt residents, with non-residents receiving emergency care before referral to their home jurisdictions.
• Local residents’ group Eigentümerinitiative Bahnhofsviertel and factions of the FDP oppose further concentration of drug aid in the neighbourhood.
• Experts from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences describe the project as a potential blueprint for targeted harm reduction in other German cities.