> The one question about UBI I haven't seen a satisfactory answer for is what's stopping landlords from raising rents to match the UBI?
Collectively? Anti-trust law. Individually? Competition among landlords. Also, for some tenants in many places, rent control.
> If everyone suddenly has an extra $1000/month,
Everyone doesn’t, unless the government is just printing money for UBI and also not replacing other programs. If it's borrowing, that money came form somewhere. If it's taxing, it came from somewhere, too. And UBI proposals tend to involve replacing, either in part (for some transitional models) or entirely means-tested welfare, which also means a bunch of money came from somewhere (from recipients and, and this is a major motivation for UBI, from the administrative infrastructure that means-tested programs have.) Compared to before the policy, the result is nothing like “everyone has +$UBI/month”.
Collectively? Anti-trust law. Individually? Competition among landlords. Also, for some tenants in many places, rent control.
> If everyone suddenly has an extra $1000/month,
Everyone doesn’t, unless the government is just printing money for UBI and also not replacing other programs. If it's borrowing, that money came form somewhere. If it's taxing, it came from somewhere, too. And UBI proposals tend to involve replacing, either in part (for some transitional models) or entirely means-tested welfare, which also means a bunch of money came from somewhere (from recipients and, and this is a major motivation for UBI, from the administrative infrastructure that means-tested programs have.) Compared to before the policy, the result is nothing like “everyone has +$UBI/month”.