>>2422014We don't have miles and miles of acres that just can be used for housing, unironically every inch in germany, from the mountains to the forests to the smallest river has some kind of use and needs to be noted down somewhere.
The only people with huge land are farmers that still have their property from when they upended the monarchies and sheeeet, and even they can't easily just turn around and make their forest or farmland to a housing zone because of the exorbitant amount of bureacracy needed.