I don't see how UBI will be any better than food-stamp-esque social welfare. If a person is poor enough to need UBI, then their major concerns will be housing,

I don't see how UBI will be any better than food-stamp-esque social welfare. If a person is poor enough to need UBI, then their major concerns will be housing, food, education and medicare. All 4 of these are taken care off (to varying degrees) by social welfare structures in place in various western economies. I do not see why UBI would be a better alternative to instead directing funding towards welfare programs for the above 4 amenities instead ? I dislike UBI, because it pretends the problems are not of total free-market capitalism's own making. UBI won't solve the problem by addressing the symptom. Centralized regulation and collective bargaining instead address the problem head on. Thus, I find them to be better solutions.