They determined it’s cheaper to just house homeless people than to pay for their emergency room visits and other social services. In current dollars the savings would be $1,783.75 after 12 months.
A 2013 Californian study found once people were housed, with appropriate support services, police contacts fell by 99%. Health costs fell by 85%.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-realised-true-homelessness-overnight.html
Interesting things 
In Canada they gave homeless people cash grants. (They selected people they thought it would work for.) It saved the government $600 CAD per person by reducing shelter costs.
https://forsocialchange.org/impact
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Hi, Pen – I woke in homelessness services now and this is entirely true. We’re doing what we can to combine efforts with healthcare to convince the world that housing IS healthcare and should be prescribed. Mutual good for all is the way to go. Morally and economically.
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