The Traiskirchen refugee center, originally meant to house no more than 480 asylum seekers, has been home to up to 2,000 people. Last week, the Austrian Interior Ministry set up a tent camp nearby to ease the pressure on local resources. Refugees state they have no privacy and application processing is overly time-consuming.
According to the Local, some 1,000 refugees across Austria are currently living in tent camps.
In 2015, Europe has seen an increase in migrant inflow from North Africa and Middle East. The bloc is currently rethinking its asylum policy.
Late in May, the European Commission called on bloc members to take in 40,000 people fleeing Syria and Eritrea for southern European countries. The refugees would be redistributed across the EU member states using a quota system based on each country's GDP, unemployment rate and the size of its documented immigrant population.
Earlier in June, Austria's Interior Ministry said it expected to receive 70,000 asylum applications in 2015, revising its previous forecast upwards from 50,000.
