Turn Housing Demolition on

[Jojoya]

An apartment twice the size of the current ones wouldn’t stop most people from wanting a house as it is not the same: they have zero utility and no outdoors.

What utility are apartments completely lacking that houses have and players want?

Adding tenants and intercross gardening are the only two I can think of, and the demand for those two things really isn't that high.

On the other hand, you never have to worry about an apartment being demolished. Can't say that about a house.

Players are usually going to want bigger when bigger is an option but if more players would focus on what can be done with apartments instead of crapping on them for being small and not having features almost no one uses. many would find that apartments are a decent alternative. That would make more houses available for those who have specific need for the features a house offers but an apartment doesn't.

Even better if SE would actually promote apartments within the game instead of almost completely ignoring their existence. If the "Where the Heart is" quests were revamped to focus on apartment ownership instead of house ownership, more players might be happy with apartments because that's what they would be expecting to get for housing at first.

Apartments are also full on at least one server.

They aren't full on any world right now. Balmung still has available apartments in Empyrean if players would bother checking the subdivision buildings.

SE also isn't going to add more housing to all worlds just because Balmung runs out. We've been through that twice already.