Let me also say letting an accounts alts automatically be able to use a house on the account would be an ideal solution for a large chunk of people. We may not see people with grand fathered housing relinquish houses over that feature but you would definitely see much less invention of micro FC's at that point. There are some that simply make micro fcs for workshop access but I feel those are in the minority compared to people that just want a house for their alt based on observations I have had.

Short of taking away opportunity from players based on current abuse of a smaller segment of players than people realize , I do not see a viable "fix" for the current incarnation of ward based housing. Blame people's greed or whatever you want, but the real issue is the system not players. I've had a lot of thought about housing and how it could be different but I am not in control of the purse strings of the organization (probably to the betterment of Eorzea >_>). Getting on the forums and taking a cursory glance at the madness in housing subforum alone tho really makes one wonder what is the deal with just cramming this onto their own player base? There is a thread that got smashed together with a ton of other threads recently that is like a mighty chorus of damage and vitriol with like 1 moderator response informing us they consolidated a bunch of threads onto that 1.. I read the entire thread with posts going back to 2017.. every single word in there last night. I am passionate for xiv housing. I get it , a lot of people are and many WAY more passionate than I am. But as one of them that is passionate for it, I am disgusted by it's current incarnation and what seems to be glee in seeing the garbage getting slung around by angry people at each other. Step up SE. Your forums have a TON of feedback with a slew of what seems like pretty reasonable suggestions.