The cooperation of localities to address homelessness has produced benefits to citizens and to the governments themselves in the following ways:
The risk to each city of moving too far on its own and being seen as an attraction for homelessness is reduced; rather, the risk and the benefits are shared regionally.
Funding and resources are leveraged.
Major housing projects, that none of the localities would likely have been able to afford on its own, have been developed or are in the process.
Ideas and strategies for addressing regional homelessness are communicated and shared between the localities.
