A Taunton hotel sued last year for housing too many migrants is expected to close as a state-run shelter at the end of this fiscal year, which a local state senator described as a “significant step in… addressing long-term housing solutions.”

State Sen. Kelly Dooner, R-Taunton, said she learned Monday that the Taunton Clarion Hotel is expected to no longer be an emergency assistance family shelter, starting in July.

“Massachusetts cannot continue to sustain an overwhelmed emergency shelter system,” Dooner said in a social media post on Monday. “I am committed to continuing working with my colleagues to enact real reforms that prioritize long-term housing solutions while ensuring our local communities are not unfairly burdened.”

Families at the shelter will work with service provider NeighborWorks Housing Solutions “to secure stable housing before the (June 30) deadline,” Dooner wrote. The state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities will transfer families who have yet to find permanent housing to other shelter sites, the first-term senator added.

The state housing office did not immediately respond to a Herald inquiry Tuesday on what other hotel shelter sites will be phased out along with the Taunton site.

Gov. Maura Healey said last November that her administration planned to phase out a wide network of costly hotels and motels that are helping boost the shelter system’s capacity. Stays at the sites can often run hundreds of dollars per night, the Herald previously reported.

The Healey administration said hotels and motels “have proven to be the most expensive shelter model and do not provide an ideal environment for long-term shelter to help families get back on their feet.”

The hotel shelters have also become hot spots for violent crime.

Thousands of pages of “Serious Incident” reports, released last month, exposed incidents of child rape, domestic violence, brawls, drunkenness, drugs and more in the Massachusetts emergency housing shelter system, dating back to 2022.

The City of Taunton sued the owners of The Clarion, seeking over $100,000 in overdue civil fines, last winter after inspectors found the establishment had housed many more migrant families, nearly 450, than allowed under the building’s occupancy limits of 350.

Mayor Shaunna O’Connell told the Herald last March that as the city’s only hotel, business travel to Taunton had been impacted by its use as a shelter. Normally the business there provides $160,000 in annual taxes to the city, and the mayor said she hoped the state would reimburse Taunton for that lost revenue.

“While we are not unsympathetic to migrants fleeing unstable conditions in other countries,” O’Connell said at the time, “we have limited resources available and many residents in need, including seniors and veterans, who require services and housing.”

Massachusetts House Democrats continue to weigh Healey’s $425 million shelter spending bill for the remainder of this fiscal year and policy proposals to make the emergency assistance program more restrictive.

Healey called on House lawmakers to rewrite her spending bill to include the new provisions, which would largely block arriving migrants from accessing state-run shelters, including by removing “presumptive eligibility” for families seeking access to emergency assistance benefits.