The Reykjavík Welfare Board has passed a bill presented by the majority, the Democratic Alliance and the Best Party, which entails mapping the number and the circumstances of those inhabitants of Reykjavík living in poverty, visir.is reports.
Reykjavik City Hall. Photo by Páll Kjartansson.
The purpose of the committee, led by reverent Bjarni Karlsson, is to find ways to help the city and other local welfare institutions to better support these people.
“This will not be done over night but the committee is supposed to hand in a progress report no later than October 1st. It will operate until the end of the year,” Björk Vilhelmsdóttir chairman of the Welfare Board said in an announcement.
