Thank you for reading them. However, you can't dispute that there is still plenty of affordable housing in the country if your income isn't tied to a location.

Thank you for reading them. However, you can't dispute that there is still plenty of affordable housing in the country if your income isn't tied to a location. No, I can dispute that. The general expectation is that young people should rent a multi bedroom place and get a roommate because we simply do not build housing appropriate for a young person who desires to live alone. Historically, we had more SROs and boarding houses. We do not have housing that serves our current demographic. We have also seen a rise in trailers, which I see as slum housing, not minimum decent housing. In theory, I could move to a place like Alabama and rent a trailer currently. In practice, that would be disastrous for me because of how negatively it would impact my health. Slum housing does not fix problems. It worsens them. I believe UBI would basically be a welfare program and would cause a great many problems. But building sufficient amounts of decent, affordable housing appropriate to the needs of singles and childless couples would go a long way towards solving a lot of problems that have been deepening in the US for decades. With appropriate housing, a minimum wage job at a grocery store should support you decently so you aren't living in dire poverty and do not feel trapped.