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There aren't. Pigeonhole principle; if you have housing for 1,000,000 people but 1,500,000 people want to live in the city, 500,000 of those will either be homeless or forced to live elsewhere, and the 1,000,000 winners will have to spend all their money bidding up against each other for the privilege.
Yes, houses with backyards are much nicer than apartments, all else being equal, but all else is not equal. Giving every family their own detached home and backyard is not possible. It's like trying to make sure all kids are above average. The fertility and quality of life hit from young adults not being able to afford housing is much larger than the fertility and quality hit from not having backyards. And since most people don't need a whole house to themselves, most people living in detached family housing end up becoming roommates, which is its own indignity against the human spirit.
That's putting it too strongly. Making all kids above average is a logical impossibility even if you had a literal magic wand. There would, on the other hand, be nothing logically or scientifically impossible about ordering society so that every (family of) citizen(s) is guaranteed a house, though barring space colonization it may require population caps once all available land has been tiled with houses.
Regardless, if we agree houses are superior to apartments, I maintain that demolishing houses to make room for apartments should be regarded as a product of dire straits, an extremely regrettable thing to do, to be undertaken only when the humanitarian concerns are overwhelming. To do otherwise is sheer Repugnant Conclusion stuff - depriving people of an actually good life for the sake of making some other people's sucky lives fractionally less sucky. 1,000,000 happy house-owners and 500,000 disgruntled apartment-owners is preferable to 1,500,000 slightly-less-disgruntled, but still fundamentally unfulfilled and frustrated apartment owners.
(And all this is without going into my objection to demolishing living spaces at all; I think it's deeply regrettable that we live in a society where living in the same house from birth to death, over multiple generations, has become abnormal; I suspect that we're like fish not seeing water with regards to widespread psychological issues caused by a majority of the population being cut off from their childhood homes in adulthood. Humans did not use to live like this. We're not built for it.)
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