Housing

Overview
A person's housing situation depends mostly upon how often they work, who they work for, and whether or not they have a regular job.

The majority of the city's population lives in apartment buildings and complexes housing hundreds or thousands of people (“complexes” are relatively self-contained living centers offering a variety of leisure and commercial facilities in addition to housing). Small apartment spaces can be dynamically transformed to meet your needs on a routine basis by using a combination of foldaway furniture and sliding or automated movable wall systems. These “origami apartments” are quite popular in the Corporate Projects and Sprawls.

Rental Costs
The UBI is enough to pay for a low-level subsistence lifestyle, and may be supplemented in many ways―through gigwork, barter, ad-viewing, reputation systems, gambling games, coupons, etc.―enabling the typical citizen to enjoy a small collection of mass-produced high-tech items. This lifestyle is the baseline option available to all UbiquiCity citizens. That said, those with corporate job contracts are often housed as part of their job package in one of the many Corporate Projects (taken as part of their pay but at a discount employee rate), while major corporate shareholders are typically provided more upscale dwellings in the Enclaves―subject to the delivery of increasing profits and positive reputation, of course.

Rent Offset Programs
The cost of living at a higher standard is often offset by advertising and datamining programs; it is possible to reside in a unit costing far more than the UBI by opting in to a number of these programs. Many corporate projects, housing management companies and independent landlords offer automatic or volunteer enrollment in such programs to offset rental fees.

The adult UBI is 1,000 credits per month, plus 500 credits for each dependent minor. Of this allotment, roughly 2/3rds is generally spent on rent and the remaining 1/3rd is spent on food, clothing and other items. It is quite common, however, for some portion of rent to be offset by participation in various voluntary programs.

Amenities
Your housing complex may contain any of the following facilities:


 * House AI
 * Swimming Pool
 * Sauna
 * AR Visitor Guides
 * Holo Visitor Guides
 * Robo Visitor Guides
 * Programmable Interiors
 * SmartGlass Windows
 * AR Butlers
 * Robo Housekeepers
 * DomoBot
 * Robo-Butler
 * Haptic Gym
 * Holo-Room

Corporate Projects & Talent Clusters
Since design time is more expensive than build time, project management is all about generating new ideas, cultivating synergy within the project team, and coordinating the efforts of that team in order to meet a dynamic demand. For this reason, corporations that outsource large numbers of workers on a recurring basis often construct huge Corporate Projects for the housing of these workers.

Selected workers are sometimes placed together in adaptive project-facilitation and living groups called Talent Clusters. These groupings are fairly permanent, as the most productive Talent Clusters consist of people who’ve worked together before, or have known each other for some time. Klatches often develop into Talent Clusters; indeed, this is the intended outcome of a klatch education.