[3] Several organizations in the Netherlands, like the Salvation Army, offer places to stay for a night.
[6] Reasons that many homeless people do not want to sleep in shelters, sometimes even when it freezes, include high drunkenness among residents, fighting, screaming, sexual harassment, and stealing of personal properties by residents of shelters.
[7] Homeless people sleep in the streets, alleys, under bridges, in fields, dunes, along highways, in forests or illegally enter buildings.
[7] The number of outside dwellers is higher in the summer than in the winter, when additional places are offered in the shelters.
It is illegal to sleep without a permit on property that isn't one's own, so homeless people regularly get fined.