Binnenland·parool.nl·28 aug

Mayor Femke Halsema is defending the plan to lift the ban on sleeping outdoors, wants more drug consumption rooms

Mayor Femke Halsema is defending the plan to formally lift the ban on sleeping outdoors, while exploring whether it is legally possible to exempt sleeping in doorways from that change. For structural solutions to the growing problems of homelessness and public drug use, she is pointing to The Hague.