These suggestions that might add <100 houses max back into the market (not even per server) always amuse me because it's pretty clear that the posters are tunnel-visioning with the idea that they'll get a house, so it doesn't really matter how infeasible the goal is or whether it's actually fixing the system, does it? (Which, here's to hoping you're able to identify the empty houses, get there, and outclick whoever's waiting at the placard.)

I'm not even worried about suggestions like this because not only are they completely unreasonable, but far too much work (especially considering SE would lose money - lots of people with multiple accounts do it solely to get an extra house, so they wouldn't be paying SE for those accounts anymore.) It's just amusing how many complaints on the forums (not just housing, but it's a lot of it) break down into "I want a thing and I don't think someone else deserves their thing, it's not fair, so give me their thing."