Housing crisis

[kaynide]

As the owner of multiple houses, my solution is simple:

1) Make the island getaway thing include instanced housing.
2) Remove the option to even buy a house for individuals in wards. From here on out, all ward-houses are for FCs
3) Require some sort of minimum activity level via the FC's accumulated points (the currency we use for submarines, etc). Make that work in a way we spend that currency automatically to "pay rent". Nothing insane, but enough that a small house would require 3-4 people actually playing the game regularly. Maybe as many as 10 for a large. (This would require tweaking as to how that currency is generated).
4) Remove demolition timers entirely, as it'd work on the currency instead.
5) If/when that housing currency hits zero, you get the 45 day notice to demolition.
(I don't really have a good answer on how to have individuals grandfathered in pay "rent")

Do that, and I happily give up everything but my FC house.

They took gil away from us already once. Housing tied to gil is bad it promotes rmt, they needed a better system. But that boat has sailed.

That boat has indeed sailed. You will no longer be able to RMT easily once EW arrives, with the exception of buying/selling an entire FC itself. Moving from one plot to another uses the same lotto system as a new homeowner. No more swooping in.

I think they could add more wards and apartments.

You've been around, so you probably already know this, so more of a reply to people asking "why don't they just add more districts?".
The best way to get more housing wards is to buy stuff on the mogstation. More wards are a money sink for FFXIV as they are a huge cost to put in infrastructure (servers) and maintain them without any profits coming in. It's a zero-gain economically for the game. The last 1/3 of housing districts was paid for entirely by mogstation purchases.