I don't want to make excuses for not helping out homeless people, in instances where the temps are this freezing cold outside one call to the police and they will come and pick up the homeless if needed and find a shelter to place them in. The problem here is that it only takes one person to sue the city if they become sick or ill from staying somewhere that the city was made aware of through a complaint of a neighbor or if several people die in a fire while occupying a dwelling the city received a complaint on. This also opens up the person to personal liability also but it isn't often that you hear of someone putting themselves at risk to save others from risk which is a kudos to him. The fact remains the same though and that is if the city was trying to enforce code it's because they became aware of a violation, to ignore the violation put the city at risk of being sued for millions if something went wrong. Sad but we live in a sue happy society.