There are a lot of areas in the cities that are blocked off that house a large open area; I was looking at some of those areas like something in The Pendants in Crystarium, and other areas. There are numerous places that they could set up the instance and transition to instanced housing, hopefully getting rid of wards and getting back to something feasible for the server operations. Put us into instanced housing, allowing us to relocate their residence and size of house. Have a common area(s) for socialization but you don't need an entire neighborhood for that.

Keep apartments and FC rooms for those that want them. Get rid of this humongous resource hog and structure it to something better that would also allow us to increase placement/storage amounts. Housing would be accessible by anyone who wanted them. Keep the pay structure and sizing if you want, it's fairly reasonable. Spending 15+ hours at a spot clicking on a board in the hopes of obtaining a residence is maniacal.