The review of the book In Our Hands is awful.
It is all, obviously this author didn't think this, which is obvious, of course... etc.

UBI doesn't restore any political sovereignty.
I do not see how you make any connections between the two.
Either you have some weird fairy-tale like view of what happens in politics, or you think that if more people had more money, they could spend it on campaigns. Neither work.

The problem with govern-cement is that they want a permanent poor and permanent homeless class.

UBI implemented through such a govern-cement would result in controlled manipulation of everyone. Post anything bad about the govern-cement on F-c-book, have your UBI cancelled. (or just delayed, lowered, routing error...)

Anyway, my main point is that providing the house is much much much cheaper than paying someone to rent the house. And since we would be taking from the efficient, driven people to do this, we should make the costs as minimal as possible.

$288,000 vs $10,000

Further, if the cities would allow such tiny homes for homeless, I could get the whole thing donated. Donated construction worker time. Donated materials from the actual lumber mills.

$288,000 vs $1,000