Quote Originally Posted by Sauteed View Post
I probably do not deserve a response but I'll go back to my original post in this thread and say taking grandfathered houses away is not the answer but veering away from the ward system itself for future house districts would be.. and I mean something akin to apartments but vastly improved upon. Allowing tenants for starters and also allowing alts to share housing would be a good start. Then perhaps increased sized and item allowances. These new "super apartments" should also be subject to the 45 day timer ward houses are as well, and you may not have a normal house in a ward and one of these styles of apartments. You can have a regular apartment alongside one of them tho. That is my suggestion.
IMO the best way forward is to have a bunch of options for people. Like keep the wards, but offer instanced housing along side. Give us the option to have an airship home (while a sub home would be cool... that's not nearly as practical). Make apartments something actually useful. Give us public access to the crafting workshop through Garlond Ironworks or Skysteel Manufactury. Let us launch airship and sub missions without needing to be in an FC to do it. Give us cross gardening without requiring a house.

Doing most of the above would help mitigate a lot of the housing issues, and I imagine if players suddenly had teleports to all their personal houses from all their characters on the same server, some would likely release the duplicate houses as that's a feature that's LONG overdue IMO.