The state of Tyrol is still (necessarily) catching up when it comes to refugee reception: in Hall (district of Innsbruck-Land), space is now being created for up to 150 displaced Ukrainian women and children in the empty south wing of the state hospital. According to the LHStv responsible, you want the three floors available there. Georg Dornauer (SPÖ) “settles consecutively” in 14 days.
The decision to house only women and some of their children was “fundamental,” Dornauer stressed at a press event on site. If the “sometimes traumatized people” were mixed with, for example, male refugees from other cultures, “conflicts could potentially arise,” said the deputy governor responsible for the integration agenda.
Some men died in the war
Thanks to the adapted premises, it is now possible to offer the women “absolutely adequate housing”. “For example, we also provide psychological care to the women whose husbands fell in Putin’s war of aggression,” added the Tyrolean SPÖ leader. The primary goal for him is “quality accommodation”.
The people who will be accommodated in Hall are people “who are already in Tyrol”, according to the director of the Tyrolean Social Service GmbH (TSD), Florian Stolz. The aim is to best accommodate the available space to their respective needs: “There are larger and smaller rooms that we can use, depending on the family constellation”.
The capacity in Innsbruck is free
The 150 Ukrainian displaced persons who will be housed there were previously housed in larger TSD accommodations in Innsbruck, which would free up capacity there. “This in turn frees up urgently needed capacity in the capital to accommodate refugees allocated by the federal government,” says Dornauer.
How many people will move in in 14 days was unclear to Stolz: “Everything is in motion”. Here, too, attention is paid to the conditions of the refugees, some of whom are currently housed in private accommodations or in the former Hotel Europa in Innsbruck.
“Women and children must be safe”
Hall mayor Christian Margreiter also wanted this resettlement of the Ukrainian refugees to be seen as “symbolic”. After all, we are in the Christmas season and “women and children must be safe,” says the mayor. During this time and beyond, “as a society we have a responsibility to help people”. “With the solution in the construction of the state hospital, we make our solidarity contribution,” says the city manager.
The lease has been signed until the end of 2023. “Now that larger accommodation options have already been created in Innsbruck, Kufstein, Schwaz and Hall in Tyrol, the state’s migration task force continues to work on acquiring permanent housing,” the state concluded.
Source: Krone
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