Munich: the number of newly arriving refugees is falling – Munich

850 people from Ukraine are currently reaching the city every day, significantly fewer than in the past few weeks. The social department is still urgently looking for new, permanent quarters.

The number of refugees from Ukraine arriving in Munich every day has decreased. According to the city, around 6,000 war refugees were registered from Friday last week to Thursday, i.e. around 850 per day. Before that, there were about twice as many. This eases the situation in the emergency shelters somewhat. Around 2,000 beds are currently occupied in gymnasiums and exhibition halls, and around 1,900 places are free. 800 Ukrainians are in quarantine accommodation, 6000 are in private quarters. Now the city wants to “gradually” relieve schools by clearing their gyms. That has already happened on Bergsonstrasse, and now the hall on Astrid-Lindgren-Strasse will also be cleared. However, beds and a basic set of hygiene items are left on site so that the places can be activated again quickly if necessary.

The medium and long-term accommodation of the refugees is bigger than the problem of emergency sleeping places. Many refugees who came to Munich years ago are still living in transitional quarters such as asylum homes. Now the city has to take care of thousands more people. In the social department, a “Task Force Ukraine”, headed by Mayor Verena Dietl (SPD), is trying to find accommodation. The city is looking for larger objects, residential houses as well as office buildings.

So far, 70 offers have been received, according to Dietl’s spokeswoman. You check them, it’s about the investment costs, the time of availability and the term of a possible rental. Nothing concrete can be said yet. The task force includes employees from several municipal authorities and the government of Upper Bavaria. They draw on the experience of the task force that was formed in 2014 and still exists to accommodate refugees. The city accepts offers for larger accommodations at the address [email protected].

Meanwhile, the CSU city council is calling for the Caritas info point in the main train station to be moved from the counter hall to the Starnberg wing station. There, those arriving could be better cared for and informed. So far, this part of the station has been a makeshift parking lot for bicycles, and the state police are also recording refugees there. Caritas would also like to move to the wing station. If it becomes a permanent facility, the city would have to take over the financing.