Housing: there has to be a better way

[Azurymber]

The issue is housing itself is rare and expensive. And a status symbol. Instanced houses would ruin both the community of having neighborhoods and the specialness of the housing itself.

Housing wards are mostly dead.
And there is nothing rare or expensive about them.
A Large house is a week of farming/crafting (a day if you do it on patch-release day).
And the "rare" factor only comes from the fact that they implemented them poorly and allowed some people to make 100's of mil by buying and flipping them (and LOTS of people did that).