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@jack_toohey on why the housing crisis is not caused by migration [ALL IMAGES IN POST BODY]
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This is why there have to be significant taxes on vacant rentals (including short term rentals like AirBNB).
It has to be made more expensive to keep a property vacant than to rent it out and maintain it, without increasing rent.
Rent assistance is just corporate welfare that drives up rent.