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I read up on this awhile ago and I believe the long term estimation would be 1 job for every 2 americans. My solution is different then UBI, my solution is to make jobs (full time) shorter, instead of a 40 hour work week, everyone works 3 days (or 24 total hours a week).

That would solve the same problem, but keep people actually working and feeling productive.

As far as gov controlled land or places to build the cheap housing, alot is already available and used for other things, homes are owned by banks and not sold etc, and there are usually places nearby that could be taken over easily to build such areas. It would be hard in busy cities, but you could emminant domain some stuff that isn't really needed, or older properties etc. Take back parking lots for instance (buy them back) then make 1 out of 4 multi-stack parking places (in big cities) and create large apartment complexes in their place.

Things like that could drastically reduce the average rental prices and set a reasonable norm, so people are not having to pay $2400 a month for a freaking 1 bedroom apartment anymore.

Mind you this won't happen easily because the wealthy and home owners are going to fight tooth and nail to not have their property values plummet, and something will need to be done about that for people who have mortgages etc (you can't just unilateralll halve property values without having tons of people be seriously under water).

So it's complicated, but there are ways to find a solution.

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