It’s increasingly plain that Team de Blasio’s “strategy” on homelessness amounts to . . . panic.

Sunday’s Post broke the news of a new de facto conversion of a hotel into a shelter on Madison Avenue, the 72-room MAve Hotel. Neighbors see a whole cluster of shelters opening up, since the 12-story Latham Hotel around the corner on East 28th Street is already a shelter, while the 416-unit Prince George Hotel next door provides low-income housing for ex-homeless.

The city’s spending hundreds of thousands a month to house homeless in the MAve. Ironically, another part of city government last year sued the principal owner, Salim “Solly” Assa, for allegedly operating an illegal hotel on West 55th.

After vowing to end the use of hotels as shelters, Mayor de Blasio instead has tripled the number of homeless in hotels this year.

Meanwhile, City Hall is apparently trying to put homeless at the head of the line for some affordable-housing units. Crain’s reports that Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been has been calling developers who built affordable units under the state 421-a program to bully them into going along.

Under new rules the city issued recently, 421-a units reserved as “community preference” are now to go to homeless who once lived in that community. (The city says taxpayers will help pay the rent if needed.)

Landlords are sure to sue to stop the bait-and-switch: They never signed up to run shelters, and their regular tenants — in both market-rate and affordable units — would be furious to have a homeless population thrust into their buildings.

Lilliam Barrios-Paoli told NY1 Noticias last week that the mayor and homeless czar Steve Banks “don’t have a long-term plan.”

For decades a key city-government leader on homelessness, Barrios-Paoli left Team de Blasio last year amid rumors that she was furious at being ignored.

We’ve long warned that the city won’t turn the corner on homelessness as long as de Blasio insists on leaving Banks in charge. Let’s hope the mayor will finally see the light when his latest desperation measures fail.