Lots of cheap housing in Baltimore. But cheap housing and $1,000 could not compensate you for the financial losses from the increased number of robberies and beatings.
“ On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ” ~ H. L. Mencken
"UBI is a candy-coated trap that breeds dependency in a population. Free money is an addictive drug, and America just had a big taste during the pandemic," Brandon Smith via Alt-Market recently opined.
This was already done with native American Indian populations, perhaps part of a reparations package of sorts for all the treaties the US gov broke with them. It had a tendency to turn the recipients into alcoholics.
I'm guessing a significant number of these recipients will be dead by the time the pilot test is over. A lot of them will be into drugs and alcoholism
They'd do much better at removing the economic mechanisms of wealth redistribution to the fractional 1%.