Minecraft wiki entry for Best_biomes_for_homes, associated text: Good source of gold ores, which can generate above the surface level.
Plenty of cacti.
Scenery is great for building here in the natural plateau, and the Eroded Badlands Biomes are very picturesque.
Surface-level mineshafts generate, which can be a source of wooden planks as well as a good place to find ores and loot.
There is a lot of terracotta here that players can mine out.
The only place where red sand can be found, which is useful for red sandstone, glass or TNT.
You can easily get sticks by breaking the dead bushes without the need to craft them, a good strategy since trees are scarce in this biome.