Universal basic housing

Universal basic housing (UBH) is the idea that everyone should be guaranteed at least a place to live.

There would be some standard of basic housing (i.e. 1 bedroom per person) available to everyone for free(...)( or to be more pedantic: paid for by taxes ). And of course you can still live larger if you pay for your own housing.

Discussions

• What sort of basic housing standard would be viable?
  • Environmental footprint of 1 studio per person
• Could UBH work under capitalism?
• How UBH could work if we overthrow capitalism
• Are there any Malthusian concerns?
• How much new housing would have to be built? 💬 discussion Maybe this shouldn't be a UBH subpage, maybe it should just be Housing page with subpages like Housing/Canada or Housing/USA. For each, one can analyze how many new homes a region needs, in order to meet standards of basic housing (which as a concept can also be separated from UBH). - assuming we don't need to do everything from scratch - some existing housing could also be made free 💬 discussion make apartments free, perhaps? discussion needed

See also

• Universal basic income
• Lower the cost of housing