This paper brings forth the housing and transport linkages in the broader discussion of sustainable urbanisation. This process is visible in the Tier II Metropolitan Cities in India. This paper brings the data from the primary survey of a 4.5 million city, namely Surat, to illustrate the need for establishing Housing-Transport linkages for the low-income households that are pushed to the periphery. The paper also argues that links of housing and transport with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need to be assessed in a given context and situated within a particular city context. In other words, there is no blue print for achieving sustainable urbanisation and that the understanding of local issues is essential as is the need for what we call bottom-up or inverse planning.