Okay, I'm pretty sure people are complaining just for the sake of complaining now.

I was curious because the house situation is EXTREMELY different on Adamantoise, that is, there are entire wards still open of small houses. So, I made a character on the OP's server (Behemoth) to check the status of small houses. This is what I found:







It doens't look to me like the houses are all bought up yet.