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Section 6

Housing, renters, homelessness, and property rights

A home without a job — and what happens to homes people already own.

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LifeSystems is a proposal for how society could work once AI and robots do about 99% of the jobs, leaving most people without employment through no fault of their own.

  • A basic income for everyone. Every eligible adult gets a tax-free monthly payment (UBI), job or no job. You can turn it off and back on whenever you like.
  • Living packages from co-ops. Worker-owned cooperatives compete to offer affordable bundles of housing, food, healthcare and more, paid for with that income.
  • Freedom stays. You can keep your home, run a business, earn more, or skip the whole system. It's a floor, not a ceiling.
  • Funded by land. Mainly through a tax on land value, the one resource machines can't make more of.

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Your turn

Housing is where good intentions meet hard limits. Where is the supply, and who gets left out?

  1. The proposed social guarantee is access to adequate housing and necessities without employment. This requires both sufficient purchasing power and actual available housing capacity, including accessible units and specialized support. A constitutional entitlement alone cannot place a person into a nonexistent home.

    §6.1

  2. Existing owner-occupied primary residences are proposed to be against any new LifeSystems-specific . Owners retain their property and may remain outside the system. The prior discussion proposed ending the exemption on sale or conversion to investment use, while inheritance treatment remains a policy choice. Existing ordinary taxes are a separate question; the proposal does not automatically repeal them.

    §6.2

  3. People who are homeless or renting could enter a directly. Individuals needing additional clinical, accessibility, or social services should receive tailored support without being forced into a single institutional setting.

    §6.3