> Talk to residents of many SE Asian countries, eg: Tokyo and elsewhere and work out how they can build enough to house higher and denser populations whereas "the West" struggles

Last time I checked was before the pandemic, but from what I remember in Tokyo most flats and housing is way out of the league of normal people and if you are wealthy enough to get on the housing ladder then it’s a tiny flat literally the size of a shipping container where you have to fold your bed away to turn it into a dining table because you’re squeezed into a tiny space like a chicken in a battery and for that “luxury” you’ll have to pay off debt for the best part of your life.

Kind of proves my point, no?