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Hague, and 1,150 homeless in Utrecht. In all municipalities, a total of 9,786 clients wereincluded in the program. An individual reintegration trajectory was considered successfulin case a "stable mix" had been reached. Criteria for a stable mix were stable housing,income, and being in contact with treatment for at least three months. By the end of2009 there were 2,679 stable mixes in Amsterdam, 1,771 in Rotterdam, 1,008 in TheHague, and 471 stable mixes in Utrecht. Compared to the total number of intakes andindividual trajectories, this amounts to 70% stable mixes in Amsterdam, 59% stablemixes in Rotterdam, 55% stable mixes in The Hague, and 41% stable mixes in Utrecht.The results are summarized in table 8.2.2. From the total of 9,786 intakes in the fourmain cities, a total of 5,929 stable mixes had been achieved by the end of 2009, amountingto an achievement of 61%.Table 8.2.2: Number of intakes among homeless people, achieved stable mixes, andpercentage of stable mixes from the number of intakes by the end of 2009in the four largest cities of the Netherlands, G4City of the G4 Intakes Stable mixes* %Amsterdam 3,814 2,679 70Rotterdam 2,989 1,771 59The Hague 1,833 1,008 55Utrecht 1,150 471 41Total 9,786 5,929 61*A stable mix requires stable housing, income, and being in contact with treatment for at least three months.Source: Strategy Plan for Social Relief Monitor, National Monitor on Homelessness (MMO), (Maas et al., 2010).As already mentioned above, in February 2010 the Strategy Plan for Social Relief, in itssecond phase, was launched in the remaining 39 centre municipalities. These municipalitiesare monitored by the Municipal Compass Monitor (Monitor Stedelijk Kompas), whichis also part of the National Monitor on Homelessness (MMO). The state of affairs has beenevaluated until the end of 2009, which counts as a zero measurement (Planije et al.2010). Inter alia, the following bottlenecks have been identified already: addicted homelesspeople show severe problems and are difficult to place, regions for social relief maynot overlap smoothly with regions for the police or the addiction care, and changes infinancial flows may lead to actual cuts for a municipality. The zero measurement furthershows the following: 37 from the 39 municipalities have a picture of the number of homeless people intheir municipality; 33 from the 39 municipalities have an indication of the number of people in their municipalitywho are at risk to become homeless; 32 from the 39 municipalities have an indication of the number of homeless youth intheir municipality.The Strategy Plan for Social Relief was developed first in the city of Utrecht and was implementednext in the other cities. A special evaluation has been conducted for Utrechtfor the period from 2000 to 2010 (Reinking et al. 2010) and for the situation in 2009(Wolf et al. 2010).Between 2000 and 2010, the Community Health Service Utrecht (GG&GD Utrecht)developed two temporary and eight permanent hostels for a total of 183 addicted homelesspeople (Reinking et al. 2010). Research among inhabitants of the hostels in 2005117