Households that include an asylum seeker with residency

A household was catgeorised as including an asylum seeker with residency if at least one of the members of the household was an asylum seeker with residency. Once an asylum seeker becomes a Dutch citizen through naturalisation, he or she is no longer counted as an asylum seeker. Because municipalities are responsible for the initial housing of asylum seeker with residency, there is a separate category within this group for those who were residing in a reception location run by the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) on 1 January 2022 or who were granted a residence permit during 2022. This was the case for about half of households with an asylum seeker with residency who moved into a dwelling owned by a housing corporation in 2022. Less than 17 percent of them had had residency for five years or more and were living outside a COA reception centre. Municipalities may also allocate social housing units to those in need of housing on other grounds.

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