Demo lite suggestion

[Zedix]

No. The system has a metric for taking away houses that people have. There is no good reason to extend it from the objective(they havent used it in x days) to the subjective(they dont use it well enough). Should my neighbor lose his house for putting up 6 of those namazu effigies that make the horrible grinding noise? Should anyone who ever put up a Paissa housing wall lose their house for bad taste? My yard looks nice and i craft there all the time(i visit my house daily), but my inside isnt finished yet so do i lose my house next?

Do yourself a favor. Dont go around looking at the seemingly empty houses. Nothing good comes of it. Tour the decorated ones for ideas you can use in your own house/apartment instead. Oh, and get an apartment. They dont get demo'd, and you can actually do a LOT more then you might think with one. Its small, but ive seen great work done.

1) They turn off demolition after a time goes by so players may not even be subscribed to the game and the housing stays for months awaiting demo to be turned back on, how is that fair to current active players seeking housing? If my suggestion is so off base then leaving demolition on 24-7-365 should remain a thing to let that metric work the way its intended.
2) I am not proposing to demo people because of subjective opinions on "taste" so that is completely off the point I am raising.
3) No, you wouldn't, it is at least partly furnished, I am purely looking at people who have not furnished/utilized their housing at all, inside or out.

[Zedix]

I'm just trying to think of why the houses might be like that...
Is it possible those people are/were new home owners? Are they still blank?
It's also possible that it's owned by one of those people who buys every house they can "in protest" of not liking this or that about the way housing works.

1) The house has been owned for at least 4 months now, not a new player, house has been blank and still remains blank to this day.
2) Buying houses in protest is, IMO, abhorrent. You are actively taking something away from people who wish to use the limited system to do what exactly? Make a point to "the man?" SE has shown disinterest in changing the housing system from its current state and no amount of community trolling and screaming will change that, buying houses to "protest" does nothing but hurt the people and FC's that actually want to utilize the system as is. Even in its deeply flawed state there are many people who want to do things only housing allows. And if there are actually people who buy houses in protest, they should really rethink what that is doing to the community. They are adding to the problem they want fixed instead of finding home owners who will stand with them, I'm all for adding more wards, creating new districts all together in new areas of the game, but buying houses to make a point is just petty, depressing, and self defeating.