Three Denver hotels that were repurposed into homeless shelters are transitioning to new management and a fourth is closing, signs that the city’s plan to end tent homelessness is in flux.

Denver’s Department of Housing Stability is using four former hotels — down by about half from the height of the city’s hotel-shelter program — that house people who were living on the streets or in nightly shelters and, ideally, are headed toward permanent housing. Those are:

A former Best Western, also near Interstate 70 and Quebec, now called the Stone Creek Shelter. The shelter has been run by the Salvation Army for $4.2 million per year. St. Francis Center will take over Jan. 1 for $6.5 million, a proposed contract that includes security services. The contract is pending City Council approval.

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