Turn Housing Demolition on

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So how do we fix the housing problem ? Do we just leave inactive people with their larges and mediums for years on end, even though they'll probably never come back ?

Two words:

Instanced Housing

That is the only way to fix it, but unfortunately SE likes the outdated, and dead feeling, neighbourhoods that we currently have. 99% of the time I'm in the housing wards I'm lucky to come across one or two other people, and even then, they are either AFK or teleporting away. This, of course, doesn't include during the lottery purchase/claim periods, since there will almost always be more people going to the empty plots than there will be any other time.