Overview
- Amsterdam confirms 250 winter shelter beds, expandable to 500 in extreme cold, across four city locations.
- The program runs December through April for people already in the region, operating 16:30–09:30 with a hot meal and showers, with access via GGD registration.
- Tilburg, joined by Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, calls for a national distribution law to share shelter responsibilities more evenly across municipalities.
- Breda rejects a national law in favor of existing regional arrangements, while Eindhoven with about 2,400 homeless residents has no position and raises execution concerns.
- Amsterdam cites nearly 14,000 people homeless or unstably housed in the Amsterdam-Amstelland region and says services are delivered with social organizations.