Sure, if you live with mom and pop and you got laid off from a job and had a place to fall back onto, yippee
If you live in pretty much any major city and you're the breadwinner then it doesn't cover rent/mortgage.
We froze foreclosures, so there are estimated millions pending. Unemployment is still in pre-pandemic numbers - all though improving.
I think our reliance on "job" to live is problematic when a virus doesn't care about the societal ramifications of a job.
I think we should talk more broader UBI programs and talk about what countries did that worked... do a huge retrospective and make things better for the future.
That easily covered their mortgage and their lifestyle, even in this expensive city, and was in no way sustainable. They had no interest in looking for work while they were receiving those benefits, but now that the benefits are disappearing they've started looking for work again.
There's houses available in much of the country for $100,000 or less. I'm fine arguing that people can have the option to struggle paying high rent or move, we don't need to pay the high rent just because they prefer the place.
Just no, not unless you live in a luxury dwelling or location. Here’s an example place I used to live long ago. Centrally located, next to the major highways, and not unsafe. It’s old and not fancy, but under $1000 and your living expenses can be much lower than that with a roommate. https://www.livechevychase.com/floorplans
(also, every single room but an efficiency is sold out and there is no pricing on their 3 bedrooms)
$600 a week at the beginning of the pandemic through July and then $300 a week this year, in addition to a second $2000 payment that went out to more than furloughed or unemployed people.