Nevada did this to California a couple years ago actually [0][1]. That said, a number of major em cities such as New York do offer homeless people the choice to accept a lump sum and a ticket to the city of their choice IN RETURN for them being ineligible to homeless services in the source city [2][3].
The first time I heard of this was Atlanta dealing with its homeless population before the 1996 Olympics and I'm sure that wasn't the first time. It's been going on a long time:
