[hungryforcodes]

This is true and not true. Desirable land aka location is where everyone wants to buy. This drives the price up. Building in the middle of nowhere increases available housing, but doesn't solve the problem really, because no one wants to live there.

In theory remote work could help with this problem, but honestly it's really only available to workers who work in offices. People with physical jobs like Amazon warehouse workers and restaurant staff and construction workers...all have to live somewhere near where they work.

[ghaff]

>In theory remote work could help with this problem, but honestly it's really only available to workers who work in offices.

And I daresay that even most of the professional class who could live anywhere in the country they wanted to probably don't want to live in or near some small midwestern city or many of the other places where housing is relatively cheap. (Some of that is preserving future employment options but even if you take that off the table, there's still almost certainly a common preference for at least the general vicinity of large mostly coastal cities--and tons of excuses why this location or that location is a non-starter.)