You can build houses all day long but that doesn't automatically make them places anyone can thrive in.

Sydney (some of the highest house prices in the world) has a few new estates built outside the city but they suffer from no schools, no shops (except a strip mall equivalent), no parks, no tree cover, and general shoddy building work.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/16/ultim...