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I guess rent will be the one to go up in case of UBI.

UBI fundamentally does not solve the problems that:

a) some people do not want to live next to some other people, and are willing to pay extra for that privilege - now they have even more money to use for that purpose,

b) in the most expensive regions, demand exceeds supply a lot.

I even think that a vast majority of UBI would, at the end, accrue to landlords.

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in the current context of this experiment rent dropped by 30% in SF while this was going on. Sure some of that was people fleeing dense urban areas to escape lockdowns, but also some was people decamping because the economic pressure to work in a city was lifted. UBI might be a terrible threat to landlords' incomes as people redistribute.

the drop in rent would be more attributable to the WFH policies instituted by many companies rather than any UBI imho.

It's gotta be combined with YIMBY policies, hopefully LVT.

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