Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[SSakuras]

I can't speak for other people, but the main reason why I wanted a house was for gardening and making hybrids. My house could be freed up for someone else that's more interested in the decoration aspect if SE added an instanced "greenhouse" to apartments and other features to bridge the gap between apartments and housing. I like TwistedTea's ideas about apartment upgrades mentioned above.

But the solution that would probably make people /happiest/ is just adding more plots.

^ This tbh... I mostly only wanted a house to do gardening. I wanted a medium so I could have 2 gardening plot sections, but I ended up with my small instead. I'm not tooooo huge into the decorating aspects of housing. It's fun seeing what everyone does, but doing it myself? Meh. Which is why I hired a decorator to do it for me lol. So if they just allowed apartments to somehow get gardening I'd be all for giving up my house and just sticking with an apartment.

I also agree though that the best way to make the most amount of people happiest will be to add more wards and plots. Problem is I was reading through all the old posts from 3 years ago in 2017. One post mentions there were 12 wards currently, and they wanted it to be doubled. Well, 3 years later and it has FINALLY doubled (exactly doubled actually, now that we have 24 wards)... but there's STILL a housing shortage. So simply doubling the plots over a length of time isn't helping. It's like they need to do it all in one fell swoop, then maybe people will be happy.

[ICountFrom0]

^ This tbh... I mostly only wanted a house to do gardening. I wanted a medium so I could have 2 gardening plot sections, but I ended up with my small instead. I'm not tooooo huge into the decorating aspects of housing. It's fun seeing what everyone does, but doing it myself?.

If I could have more gardens on a small, by giving up having a house, I'd actually do that.

[Almagnus1]

If I could have more gardens on a small, by giving up having a house, I'd actually do that.

If we had something in game like https://www.gartendeck.de/ in Hamburg, Germany that would be like what you're talking about.

I imagine decoupling gardening from housing would help reduce some demand for housing as right now people want a house because that's the only way to do cross breed gardening.