Bill’s hotel bill

Mayor de Blasio squanders public funds and neighborhood goodwill on an unsustainably expansive view of his duty to those hunting for a home. Eight months after heralding a coming end to widespread use of hotels as homeless shelters, the Daily News reports his Department of Homeless Services has signed up 13 new hotels at rates topping $5,000 per month, per room.

And the city is sneaking in the new guests with just hours’ notice to host communities, even as the mayor readies to ask those same neighbors to welcome future shelters with open arms.

Heck, developers now build hotels in hopes that DHS will park the homeless there — a good bet as the number of people living in shelters again breaks records. The city lodges more than 14,200 single adults this week with no questions asked, even if they just stepped off a long-distance bus.

For these lone men and women de Blasio resolutely refuses to limit in the least shelter on demand, never mind that the city could and did insist the 15,000 families currently in a shelter first prove they have nowhere, anywhere, to go.

No wonder the Department of Homeless Services has Best Western on speed dial.

To spend the equivalent of $60,000 a year on rooms lacking even a kitchen as a gesture of necessary compassion is to trash both the money and credibility to help New York’s needy.