Another issue is, people want medium/large houses and there’s not enough of those.

At any rate, the whole system is terrible and «*neighborhoods*» is a myth. Def best solution even if not the one I like the most, is instanced housing or upgrade their servers. When even old games like LOTRO automatically creates new wards to allow people to buy, you know there’s something wrong in FF. Why be stubborn with a system that clearly doesn’t work no matter how many bandaids you put on it, instead of offering a solution that could satisfy a large portion of your players. They’re even missing out on mogstation sales since a lot of people don’t have outdoor properties.