North Yorkshire Council fears a number of Afghan refugees face eviction from a Scarborough hotel.
Local Democracy Reporting ServiceThe authority said officers were planning for a "worst-case scenario" where up to 90 people could become homeless on 16 August.
At a meeting of North Yorkshire Council's corporate and partnerships scrutiny committee, councillors said they were worried a lot of the refugees would "present as homeless" in the coming months. Councillors were also told of the difficulty getting payments intended to support their work with refugees., an officer said: "We constantly find problems in terms of the Home Office not paying us on time.
The meeting was told the use of hotels for Afghan refugees who had fled the Taliban was "far from ideal," but had been the only option.
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