Don't kid yourself, those programs already exist.  The Metro Denver Homeless Initiative Point-in-Time survey of the homeless shows only about 15% of the homeless are “unsheltered” each night.  And most of these are unsheltered by choice.  They do not like the rules (no smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no pets, etc.) at shelters, or at low-income transitional housing (like the old YMCA building at 16th and Lincoln).  I see many of them each and every day when I walk down the Sixteenth Street mall to go to and from work.  These people do not want jobs, they want handouts only.