People don't seem to be able to get past the idea that they would be paying for someone else's housing. That's it. Your ideas are faaaaar more complicated than that. The logical response to that concern is to demonstrate that it's actually cheaper to just house ppl or give GBI, and it's been demonstrated several places in several ways, but you can't argue with angry or hungry, people are not coming from a place of rational decision making. The more riled up they get (FB, Fox, etc) and the more wealth is taken away from them (wealth concentration) the less rational and more emotional their decisions become, and that suits the people at the top of food chain very well.

Also I don't think it makes sense at all to talk about "the government". There isn't a government, there's only a whole mass of factions more or less battling each other for primacy, and of necessity that is their number one priority at all times (whatever your agenda might be, gaining or holding onto a position of power is a necessary first step in making it happen). Anything that gets accomplished is only ever in the service of that goal. If you can recast your arguments to help one faction or another feel they will get and hold more power then you have a chance of implementing your agenda, otherwise, you are irrelevant to them.

But again, perhaps you just wanted to vent?