TITLE: Kazhdan's property (T) vs. residual finiteness
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: I have asked this question already on mathstackexchange but got no answer (see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1795795/kazhdans-property-t-vs-residual-finiteness) and it was suggested that I may ask it here too.
There is a theorem that states that a discrete group $G$ with Kazhdan's Property $(T)$ and Property $F$ (so called factorisation property) is residually finite (see Kirchberg, Discrete groups with Kazhdan' s property T and factorization property are residually finite), i.e.
Kazhdan's Property $(T)$ + Property F $\Rightarrow$ Residual finiteness.
For the definitions of Kazhdan's Property $(T)$ and residual finiteness see e.g. the corresponding wiki-articles.

I am wondering if some kind of "converse" is true. More precisely, I am looking for some property, let us call it Property X, such that:
Residual finiteness + Property X $\Rightarrow$ Kazhdan's Property $(T)$.

Maybe there is something similar in the literature?
Definition for Property $F$ of the cited paper.

REPLY [9 votes]: Perhaps it's worth mentioning that Property (T) seems to repel certain strengthenings of residual finiteness.  An open question of Long and Reid asks:

Is there an infinite finitely generated group which is LERF and has Property (T)?

Recall that LERF stands for Locally Extended Residually Finite, and means that every finitely generated subgroup is closed in the profinite topology.  (Residual finiteness means the trivial subgroup is closed)
Long and Reid's question may have a positive answer, but the point of it is that such groups seem in any case to be extremely rare and/or difficult to construct.