This will always be aggressively fought by the rich and powerful who benefit from the status quo, usually by flooding the media with straw-man misrepresentations of the solution to turn the public against it.

Yeah, pretty much.

Your solution would likely require the government seizing large plots of land from private citizens/companies.

Hm? No. You just buy it. The US government under Biden spend about a trillion dollars on the IRA with all its various programs, without even needing to just blindly put it all on the government's credit card as Trump is doing for all this nonsense. But there's plenty of money.

When they did this exact system in England, a lot of landlords proactively started selling their stuff to the government, because rents were so low that they'd rather just have the money instead, to do something else with it. That's one of the advantages of this approach is that you don't have to coerce anybody or illegalize anything in order for it to work, the government just enters the marketplace and uses its money influence to fix things by playing by the marketplace rules.