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The disability part is definitely an important issue I had not considered before. As for the housing cost I worked out the amount based on food and a room for o
by k-mcgrady 11y ago
The disability part is definitely an important issue I had not considered before. As for the housing cost I worked out the amount based on food and a room for one person in London. It's doable at £550. You won't be incredibly comfortable but you will have enough food and decent shelter at no cost to you. If you have a partner (so two UBI's to work with) finding a 1 bedroom apartment within that budget is also doable in Zone 4/5/6. And of course we're talking about the most expensive part of the UK. I know someone who has bought a 2 bed apartment in Manchester with a mortgage of around £600pm. Easy for 2 people on a UBI of £550 to manage. Generally I'm very against the idea of poor people being forced out of a city due to it becoming unaffordable but it seems like a fair trade off for a UBI. You can take that and live anywhere else in the country without working or if you want to stay you don't need a high income job, just an average wage to supplement the UBI. It would also be interesting to see how a UBI would effect the cost of private rentals in a city like London. I'm sure a lot of people who don't need to live in London for work anymore would leave and landlords would be less interested in income and more interested in good long-term tenants.
- notahacker 11y agoZoopla's average London room rental is £552 per month. That's without adding bills, council tax, food etc. I'm well aware better value for money options exist (I have one) but you can't use that as a basis for assuming the average turfed-out social housing tenant is going to find them. Needless to say, the housing and other expenditure figures generally used in "Living Wage" calculations are much higher than that. Of course, there's an argument that subsidising people that clearly couldn't afford to live in the area they grew up in isn't a particularly good use of funds (compared with subsidising gap years, early retirements and stay at home partners?) but I can't see the left buying it. Or anyone on the right being keen to find the extra gross £140bn pa you still need to find even once you've reduced disability and housing spend to zero.