UBI would cover rent for a great many in a vast swath of the country. It's not supposed to replace working, it's supposed to be a transfer from industries that

UBI would cover rent for a great many in a vast swath of the country. It's not supposed to replace working, it's supposed to be a transfer from industries that employ no one but generate vast wealth, to people who work in industries where the marginal value created is less than cost of living. It's also designed to be a cushion for the poor, and replace the various administratively expensive great society programs with a single transfer benefit. Progressives hate it, because it doesn't solve all the problems, Conservatives hate it, because it offends their sense of propriety about government oughten do - and "gets in the way" of the labor market.