I've been seeing a lot of stuff on how there are too few houses, and a number of suggestions for alleviating the issue. Some practical, some not practical.

My favorite so far is opening houses to one's friend list, etc. And I was thinking that another variation of that might be to make houses bind on account instead. You're allowed to only own one house at a time (the exception being if you are a FC Master and purchase one for the FC and one for yourself), and any alts would have full access to everything within that house.

Such a set up won't solve all housing issues, but it would at least alleviate the problem with folks buying houses for their alts (since not everyone wants a room at their FC) and then never using them. Just to throw that out there.