> If 20 percent or more of your income is eaten by healthcare and 50 percent or more is eaten by housing costs, life will be pretty damn bleak and UBI won't sol

> If 20 percent or more of your income is eaten by healthcare and 50 percent or more is eaten by housing costs, life will be pretty damn bleak and UBI won't solve it. This likely is a large factor in things like the opioid crisis and rising suicide rates. Figures do seem to indicate an increase between 2001 and 2009 in health care spending as a percentage of income, but isn't most of this a difference in real after-tax income? It's hard to make heads or tails of post-2010 data because of the PPACA. As for SRO, do you have some idea of why these properties have been disappearing? Has it become a bad deal for aesthetic/cultural reasons, or is it a matter of excess liability for the landlords? The Wikipedia article for them seems to suggest that they just don't make sense anymore for landlords in San Francisco at least. It seems to me like a simple matter of places becoming more financially valued, and therefore no longer viable places to rent for anyone below the naturally matching income bracket. If you want affordable housing, you'll have to travel a few kilometres in any other direction (this of course being especially hard for coastal cities, where you're typically restricted to 170 or fewer degrees of sprawl which may or may not offer attractive employment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955379/figure/fig01/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955379/figure/...