bloodandhedonism:

So if a national guaranteed income/citizen’s dividend ever comes online, and I think it will sooner or later, I suspect the immediate effects will be more visibly social than “economic.”

I mean, do you see how many young adults live with their parents these days, despise it, and understandably dream of moving out?

In Italy which has I believe the highest rates of intergenerational co-residence in the first world, individual homes for the young is CasaPound’s original signature issue. That’s why their symbol is the turtle in its shell, a creature in its home.

The UK is facing major housing issues - part of this is London gentrification, but part of it is that since WWII homebuilding has been considered a function of the state, in the form of local councils, and since Thatcher’s reigning in of council budgets and sell-off of council houses to their inhabitants, there hasn’t been much investment in new construction. If UKIP ever makes a pivot to domestic politics I can see them making a lot of hay out of that issue.