Ukrainian immigrants can no longer be housed in Dutch townships as shelters are at capacity and people are being turned away, according to the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG).
About 4.7 million people have fled Ukraine to other parts of Europe since the conflict between Moscow and NATO-backed Kiev escalated in February 2022.
Around 120,000 have gone to the Netherlands, including men who have left the country to avoid mobilization.
According to the VNG, “almost” all of the 97,000 municipal shelter spaces in the Netherlands are occupied, while around 300 Ukrainians continue to arrive weekly in the country, the organization added.
Municipalities such as Utrecht and Dordrecht have reported that they are no longer able to provide housing to new arrivals. Local officials have pointed to shortages in housing and funding, and have called on the national government to provide a long-term plan.
Dutch officials have warned that without additional national support, municipalities will not be able to meet their legal housing obligations.
Proposals under discussion include requiring Ukrainians with jobs or sufficient income to contribute towards rent for their accommodation, though no final decision has been taken.
Other Western European countries reportedly face similar difficulties. The UK, Ireland, Germany, and Finland have all taken steps in recent months to reduce financial support or benefits for Ukrainians, citing pressure on national budgets and housing supplies.
In Poland, anti-Ukrainian sentiment has reportedly been rising.
Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said in March that Poles were increasingly frustrated over hundreds of thousands, or maybe even over a million young Ukrainians driving the best cars around Europe and spending weekends in five-star hotels.
Last month, Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill to prolong benefits for Ukrainians, arguing that the assistance system needs to be reworked.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
Move them into the spare bedrooms of all the politicians. They caused it all , and don’t wear the costs. So make them hurt a little, and you watch how quickly they come to their senses about taking in Ukrainians , starting and continuing wars and wasting the taxpayers’ money of hardworking Dutch people, all for stupid adventures .
Need to kick Netherlands citizens out to make room for more Nazi’s from Ukraine.
Kick the Dutch out of their own country. They voted for the replacement policy so as not to look ‘right wing’ when it was cool to virtue signal ‘woke’.
Isn’t Netherlands one big whorehouse? Great place to house these wonderful Ukrainians.
I am sorry but I have zero sympathy for the Netherlands government and those that vote for it. They come over to Scotland where I live and start dictating their social ideology of Woke & ECO & PC causing hurt and harm to the poor of the country by their policies . In their own country they cause poor farmers to sell their land due to forced farming policies of stopping their whole land to be used for produce leaving it barren. Also fining them for their cows farting . Those farms are bought up by big conglomerates who up… Read more »