We need another Housing purge

[illgot]

No it wasn't. If wards were turned into a ghost town, people would buy those houses gladly once they were reclaimed. SE didn't change the rules regarding this, other than a freeze on reclamation due to natural disasters effecting a large number of players.

The change in rules was regarding specifically the issue addressed, that each players can have one personal house, and that each FC can have one house, while supplies last. It specifically states that any attempts to skirt around these rules are also against the rules, which we can see here. Further changes are being made to make personal houses available for the entire account, further cementing that a personal house is for 1 player, and not for 1 character.

Additional changes were so that FC housing would be reclaimed if the FC had not enough members to consider it legitimate. What we see however is that these FC's are made up of the same people with alternate characters. You only need 4 players to own 16 houses.

What we see here is an obviously violation of the rules, and SE should crack down on it.

you are making up rules.

The rules state that each character can only have one personal house and own one FC house.

Character, not player. You keep insisting it is player based but the housing rules are character based.

It is impossible for a character to now acquire more than 1 personal house and own one FC house. There is no "skirting" the rule because it is impossible to now bypass that rule. The characters who were grandfathered in are also not breaking any rules... because they were grandfathered in to the new system intentionally.