Island Sanctuary as a housing solution ?

[Arielen]

What makes you think that? There's a pretty big gap in population between the lowest population worlds and the highest population worlds but every world will have the same 7,200 houses. Sure, it will be easy to get a house on a JP world that only has 8,000 active players. Not so easy on a NA world with over 20,000 active players.

Demand is not just from individual players wanting a house. There are FCS who also want a house. Those evidently make up 30% of house ownership right now, which would reduce the number available to individual players to about 5,000. Suddenly even the low pop JP worlds may have a shortfall depending on what percentage of players want to own a house.

Then there are the players who play on multiple worlds and have houses on each of those worlds. There are the player who have multiple shells FCs for access to more workshops and gardens. That further reduce the number of houses available for players who do not have a house.

Ishgard housing is not a solution unless SE will be making additional changes to how the ward system works that they have not shared with us.

Where are there 20k active players? Because the largest server (Gilgamesh) lists 14.5k, and it's worth noting that 'active' doesn't mean currently playing, it means "characters that have finished 5.0". It's doubtful there are actually 14.5k people currently playing on Gilg.

(5 residential districts * 24 wards) * 60 plots = 7200.

That's literally more plots than the entire active population of Spriggan and Twintania. 7.2k plots is enough for every FC on the vast majority of servers + a large chunk of personals.