I might highlight that these agencies have limited budgets and they have a lot of important decisions that they have to make in use of those budgets. Ultimately, all of the homeless serving agencies want to end homelessness, which means providing people with safe, secure, permanent, and affordable housing. However, they provide other services along the way and many will actually have an ID fund that will fund part of the replacement fees of this identification.
The more time, energy, and resources that go into identification, the less time, energy, and resources we have to truly end homelessness by providing people with the housing supports that they need.