From a reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._housing_plan/
credits to ffxiv reddit discord's iluna minori for translation
アパルトメントが狭いので家のようにSMLを作ってほしい
Apartment currently feels cramp, so we'd like to have options to have a S M or L sized apartments
パッチ4.2に向かって土地を増やして皆さんに公平に渡るように全力で開発を行っている なので今のところ大型のアパルトメントの開発予定はないがタスクが終わった後で前向きに検討したい
Yoshida: We're currently working in adding more wards and a system where everyone can obtain a new house fair and square for Patch 4.2.
Therefore for now we don't have plans to develop a large scale apartments right now but once we get the current task done, we'd like to move foward and see what we can do with it.
Since I cant speek Japanese I am not sure how accurate these translations are but somehow they are planning to adding new wards and something where people can get a new house fair and square...I am honestly feeling like this sounds like some kind of lottery system and I hope that this is not true. This would not change the problem itself which is the amount of housing.
Also it seems that they consider apartments with different sizes and I really hope that the older ones can be changed too but who knows how long that will take. ^^;
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There are a lot of different points that are not exactly mentioned in the ToS since you cant list every single thing in this. For example kicking someone for a different playstyle is allowed, yet this is nowhere seen in the options when you kick the player. Also them saying that selling with profit is forbidden kinda implies that at least that part is against the ToS. At the same time why do people need to sell their house? If you dont want it anymore just wait till the timer is over and one can get back 80% of your Gil. If you want a different house you can have the move feature now and if you just buy it to sell it..well that player is exactly part of the housing problem and should be punished. In the end every time you sell a house just for the initial price the buyer will have to pay at least double the price than normal and also hope that nobody snatches it up until he get it. So if you have no system in the game that allows for an easy selling (like an auction) and you need to do it in the way right now, makes it feel like its not intended to happen that way.