Does Aniimo have housing and gardening?

The space is called your homeland, and it is yours rather than a shared town plot. Building and decorating are separate things here. There is a building system for structures, and decoration placement on top of it, so the homeland is not just a room you drop furniture into.

The garden is the part with an input and an output. You grow crops in it, which makes it the one piece of the homeland that produces something rather than just looking the way you arranged it.

None of this is a side mode you unlock and forget. It sits alongside catching and raising Aniimo as a second thing to spend time on, and the build, garden and decorate loop is what that time goes into.

Not settled: What harvested crops are used for, and whether other players can visit your homeland, were not settled in the closed beta.