Residents left homeless by Tuesday’s apartment building collapse in Petralona will receive emergency financial assistance and a place to stay, the city of Athens said.

“Our thoughts in these difficult moments are with Petralona,” Mayor Haris Doukas wrote in a social media post as rescue crews worked at the site on Alkminis Street in the central Athens neighborhood.

The mayor said the city was monitoring the operation closely and that municipal teams had been deployed to help. Among them were the municipal police, the city’s Street Work outreach team and the sanitation department, which was ready to provide trucks and a loader if needed. Doukas said the crews were coordinating with the Hellenic Fire Service, the special disaster response unit known as EMAK and other authorities.

The city intends to offer emergency cash assistance to every affected family along with temporary accommodation, Doukas said. He closed his message with a wish that the collapse claim no lives.

Η σκέψη μας αυτές τις δύσκολες στιγμές είναι στα Πετράλωνα.

Παρακολουθούμε στενά την εξέλιξη της επιχείρησης. Επί τόπου βρίσκονται για βοήθεια η Δημοτική Αστυνομία, η ομάδα του Street Work, αλλά και η Διεύθυνση Καθαριότητας, παρέχοντας, εφόσον χρειαστεί, φορτηγά και φορτωτή,… pic.twitter.com/fu56qdw1l9

— Haris Doukas (@h_doukas) June 30, 2026

The building, which housed seven apartments, came down earlier Tuesday. No injuries or people trapped in the rubble had been confirmed, though search and rescue teams were continuing to comb through the debris to rule out that anyone remained beneath it. Three construction workers and a woman initially reported missing were later accounted for.

Residents after the collapse of a four-story apartment building in Petralona, ​​at 22 Alkminis Street, Athens, June 30, 2026. (SOOC)

The cause of the collapse remains under investigation. Authorities are examining excavation and construction work at an adjacent lot that had been underway for two to three months, while structural engineers who spoke to Greek media cautioned that the building likely had serious problems of its own.