It does get into elements of the basic problem though: i.e. would the government be (in the short/medium term) better off using that money to subsidize housing

It does get into elements of the basic problem though: i.e. would the government be (in the short/medium term) better off using that money to subsidize housing construction ? I believe a UBI is our future, but I'm not entirely convinced we've actually hit the societal-scale productivity necessary to support it yet