You speak as if the cost is benign.  As the population grows (and it will) the total cost will be shifted to the taxpayers.  This story does nothing more than attempt to make the reader feel good about how they are helping the homeless, while establishing a new norm and their will be an expectation at some point that the city must assume liability for all funding.....mark my word, I've seen this happen over and over. Denver is the new San Francisco.