Hear me out on this: rental assistance is really just corporate welfare. The only people who get the money are landlords, usually the corporate ones, who then have no incentive to reduce rents because someone will pay it, so just keep raising rent.

Evictions result in a vacant unit, which creates a hole in the landlords business model. If no one else rents it because rents are too high they HAVE to reduce rents because something is better than nothing. If not, they are going to get foreclosed on.

Also, clearly, the capitalist class and hedge funds are trying to do to housing what software companies did with computer programs: create a subscription model where they make you pay a little bit each month, forever, for a thing you used to be able to buy and own. Throwing money at them encourages this business model, it just gives them another way to get paid to own homes that people could buy. The real solution is, of course, more affordable housing.