No, that's not what I'm saying. At the moment, cities are too attractive, and this is largely due to the availability of jobs. What I am suggesting is incentives, in whatever form, to encourage companies to move to less populated areas.

It is not necessary to obliterate the local business environment, only to limit it to the extent that the available jobs roughly match the available workers. Yes, it is true that house prices would fall to be more in line with construction costs, but that is the point, if you want cheaper housing, the housing must actually be cheap.