(DNAINFO) Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska and Katie Honan | October 11, 2016 — Families were placed at the hotel without notifying the community.

The city placed homeless families at a new hotel on Jamaica Avenue before the building before obtained its Certificate of Occupancy, documents posted on the Department of Building’s website indicate.

The Department of Homeless Services confirmed to DNAinfo New York that it is currently renting rooms to house homeless families with children at the brand-new building at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and 183rd Street which does not have any logo nor a reception area.

But neighbors, who said they were never informed that the building would be used to house the homeless, said that the city started placing families there before the building was even completed, they said.

Source: Homeless Put in Jamaica Hotel Before It Gets Certificate Of Occupancy: Docs