A predictable emergent behavior of basic income would be to fix housing by itself. $1000/month is not enough to live in many cities, but it's more than enough t

A predictable emergent behavior of basic income would be to fix housing by itself. $1000/month is not enough to live in many cities, but it's more than enough to live very comfortably in less developed areas. That opens up some really cool entrepreneurial ideas on a lot of levels. For instance if you can get together a team interested in working on a startup, then that team could sustain itself indefinitely if they will willing to locate to a more rural area. This, in turn, would also help develop the economies of these areas with the startups that succeed. There are even some big scale ideas here. Get just 10,000 people together and that income is $10million/month. If these people were willing to contribute and work together, they could actually begin to build their own new areas from the ground up given nothing more than basic land. Ideally I think the perfect value for a basic income would be enough to provide the bare essentials of housing and sustenance in the areas of the US with lower living expenses. The one condition of basic income would need to be citizenship by birth to two parents who were also citizens of birth. If somebody immigrates to the nation, their grandchildren can participate in the program. This removes any incentive for social program targeted migration, or to try to give birth just within the borders. Furthermore, basic income would enable us to remove many current social programs, which provide such incentives to a lesser degree, as they would become redundant.