The Limburg municipality of Vaals, close to the border with Germany and Belgium, is the relatively greenest municipality in the Netherlands, reports the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) on Nature Conservation Day. “More than three-quarters of the area per neighborhood is green, looking at low greenery and trees per neighborhood, excluding agricultural use,” the VNG said based on figures from 2021, the most recent. After Vaals comes the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Katwijk is the least green municipality, followed by Westland and Aalsmeer.
Organizing the parliamentary elections on November 22 will be a massive job, people involved told De Telegraaf. Municipalities are particularly worried about recruiting enough volunteers in time to run the polling stations and count the votes.
Additional measures are needed to meet the Cabinet's ambitious target of constructing roughly 900,000 new homes in the Netherlands by 2030, according to Woonbond. The tenants' association released an action plan in anticipation of a parliamentary debate next week.
The care for asylum seekers is insufficient in most crisis emergency shelters, concluded researchers from the Red Cross, Dokters van de Wereld, and expertise center Pharos. The housing is terrible. There is no privacy, too few toilets and showers, and long waiting times with nothing to do. “The crisis emergency shelter in its current form is making residents sick,” the organizations said. The municipalities and health service GGD share the concerns, but according to the COA, most municipalities have their crisis shelters in order.