Overview
- City officials announced Thursday that the tent camp in the Eschenheimer Anlage will be dismantled in phases starting in August and removed as new beds become available.
- The tent site was established in late June after a fire-safety report led the transport company to end the lease on the Eschenheimer Tor U‑bahn shelter and the city set up five communal tents as an emergency stopgap.
- The new plan would place current tent residents into four inner-city emergency facilities providing up to 150 sleeping places in total, and city spokespeople say negotiations with shelter operators are in their final stage but exact locations are not yet public.
- Officials acknowledge concerns over access and services because the tents offered gender-separated sleeping areas, mobile toilets and help for people with dogs, and the city is considering a shuttle service to bring people to the dispersed sites.
- Frankfurt estimates 200–300 people sleep rough, about 600 emergency beds are nearly full each night and some 4,200 homeless people are in municipal shelters, so officials warn the new rooms will ease pressure but not resolve the wider gap in capacity.