News | 36,000 reception places
The Fedasil network and its partners have passed the threshold of 36,000 places.
On Monday 12 November 2024, the reception network for asylum seekers in Belgium had 36,077 places.
This is a record capacity, but it is still not enough to accommodate all the people who are entitled to a reception place. At the moment, 2,650 single men are still on the waiting list for a reception place.
Temporary places
The places created recently are most often temporary. As in previous winters, Fedasil can for example take advantage of various sites to accommodate asylum seekers - these sites are generally unoccupied outside the tourist season (campsites, accommodation for school groups or youth movements).
107 centres
The 36,000 places in the reception network are spread out across 107 collective centres (Fedasil, Red Cross and other partners) and in individual accommodation managed by the municipalities.
Compared with 1 January 2024, this is a net increase of 400 places. While the number of people living in centres is increasing, the amount of individual accommodation managed by the municipalities is decreasing.
Alongside this network of 36,000 places, asylum seekers are accommodated by the homeless reception sector in Brussels. 2,000 places are still available there thanks to federal funding.
Since 2021, due to the saturation of the Fedasil reception network, priority has been given to families, single women, minors and other vulnerable persons. Single men wishing to be allocated a place must register on a waiting list. In this context, more places are needed to accommodate all the asylum seekers who are entitled to them.