Faced with a December 31 cutoff of federal dollars that currently pay for hotel rooms, the Young administration is looking for other funding sources to keep the homeless from returning to congregate shelters or to the streets.

“We are in the process of extending the contracts with the hotels,” James Bentley II, spokesman for Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, said tonight, responding to questions about whether the city will extend the hotel stays over the winter.

Previously, the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services said it was revamping its shelters to provide for better social distancing and planned to reopen the facilities next month.

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