BANGOR, Maine (AP) Officials are taking steps to move Maine’s homeless indoors as colder weather approaches. But there may be fewer options this winter.

In Bangor, city employees have begun cleaning up an encampment of homeless residents. In the coming week, case workers will seek to connect homeless residents with indoor spaces.

Shelters are continuing to operate at reduced capacity during the pandemic and federal funding that has paid to put some unhoused people in hotel rooms set to expire at the end of the year.