An interesting position here: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/

An interesting position here: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni... Not sure how applicable this is to SF, but the estimate there was that $30-50k/year was being spent on service usage for homeless people, which is the same ballpark as here (assuming the current budget actually includes e.g. medical costs).