Housing plots need rent. Sound horrible? Consider these facts:

[GenJoe]

I just don't even understand this mentality. Why can't we band together to demand what SE originally promised us (separate from FC, more affordable) instead of coming up with these elaborate ways to punish one another for not making housing their number one priority upon every single login? Are we playing a real estate mmo? Or should housing be a fun and entertaining side activity for those who enjoy it?

I just can't see anyone enjoying this content with the level of stress some folks want to add.

Because the way SE decided to implement housing early on, it's not feasible to have 3,4, 5 times the wards we currently have just to satisfy demands.. We're working within a very finite system. If SE could magically come up with a way to add 24 more wards for each city, great.. What would be better is if they could consolidate the wards combine the main and subdivision, then double it to have 120 houses in each ward... We all have ideas on how housing could be better, but fact of the matter is, SE has already admitted that they can't just simply keep on adding more wards, at least not at a rate even remotely close to meeting the demand for housing..

You can blame SE for their shortcomings, it's very real.
But any change to Housing done at this point will be all an afterthought, you can't scrap the system entirely and start over from scratch, which is what doubling/tripling the wards will require.. Even separating FC/personal housing, I think it's too late to do that, they should've just waited to perfect the player housing before rushing it out intermingled with FC houses, but they didn't.. Too late to go back now.