City Hall is taking significant steps toward creating a year-round shelter to serve the homeless during extremely cold, hot or stormy weather.

With approval from City Council, Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration is steering $1.8 million in federal housing dollars to Commonwealth Catholic Charities to create a 75-bed shelter during inclement weather at its Housing Resource Center at 809 Oliver Hill Way in Shockoe Bottom.

The work is expected to be completed next year to provide emergency shelter year round, according to Sherrill Hampton, city director of Housing and Community Development.

The appropriation of the money follows CCC’s selection as the operator of city shelter programs.

Separately, the Stoney administration is moving to develop a one-stop housing resource center in a former restaurant space on the first floor of City Hall. According to a report to City Council’s Education and Human Services Committee, design work is in process.

The new CCC space would add to several hundred beds that 12 other nonprofit entities operate year-round for addicts, domestic abuse victims, women with children, veterans, single adults and others needing temporary shelter, such as people recovering from surgery or illness or the mentally ill.

While the renovation is taking place, the CCC will operate the city’s cold-weather emergency shelter at the Quality Inn Central, 3207 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. near The Diamond baseball stadium, Ms. Hampton confirmed.

The space will be available, per council policy, when the temperature and/or the wind chill factor are forecast to drop to 40 degrees or below.

Ms. Hampton told City Council’s Education and Human Services Committee that the city has requested that CCC not turn anyone away even if they arrive at the shelter late into the evening and have not contacted the homeless crisis hotline, (804) 972-0813, before it stops daily service around 9 p.m. She expressed confidence that CCC would meet the request.

The homeless shelter is separate from the pandemic emergency shelter that CCC now manages for the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care, or GRCOC, a collective policy board for public and private entities involved in homeless services.

Ms. Hampton said the pandemic emergency shelter is based at a Days Inn in South Side and is supported by a separate pot of federal funds. She said 115 rooms at that motel have been assigned to that use through March using federal money desig- nated for shelter assistance.

As of Sept. 23, she said that the motel housed 75 families with children under 12 and 34 individuals who were either 62 or older or who are more at risk for COVID-19 because of serious health conditions. The numbers change regularly, she said, as families and individuals either find other housing themselves or are assisted in relocating through other city and regional rehousing programs.