Why Removing Houses from inactive is NOT a solution.

[Syrehn]

Jeezus, you're a right pleasant person, aren't you. Good thing this is a video game and not real life. In a video game we can have things without reality kicking us in the face, as the goal is generally have fun.

Better design: Instance individual houses. Create neighborhoods voluntarily by connecting 2 or more individual houses together. People who care about neighbors get their community. People who want a more robust housing customization system can have that, because with individualized instances, there should be more server capacity for item limits and such.

The goal generally might be to have fun but... Dead neighbourhoods are not a community. Dead neighbourhoods are not fun.

Honestly it doesn't really matter what you want at this point (keep housing/instanced housing/etc.) because SE already stated they're going to be doing something about inactive properties and it's extremely unlikely they will change the current housing system this far into it.