Housing needs to be addressed.

[Solarra]

... Quite a lot of people like myself hope *they never* introduce instanced housing. Part of the appeal of housing is the neighborhood, randomly walking around to look at people's houses etc.

Ideally we would have instanced housing (I'm talking about something better than apartments) as well as the existing wards.

While I can see walking round the ward is a little more immersive than clicking to visit from a menu, I'm not convinced it outweighs the low outdoor furnishing limits and short supply of plots we have to suffer in consequence.
I'm also a little envious of those people who talk about seeing lots of people in their ward and getting random visitors because it happens so rarely that I ever see anyone near my house and most of my guest book entries are either from friends or just me messing around.

I sincerely doubt they'll scrap the wards as they've invested so much in them, so I don't see any harm in pushing for better quality instanced housing to go along with them.