Apartments need Rent

[Jojoya]

And if everything had rent?

Players not interested in paying rent would let their houses demo to reclaim what gil they can.

Players willing to pay rent would skip over apartments and go straight to houses because there would now be plenty available.

Players who had been on break just to come back to find their apartments demolished would be pissed beyond belief at all the seasonal event items they had stored and now lost, and would cancel their subscriptions.

Your idea of making things more attractive does not work. You don't make things more attractive by taking away the perks that were used to make them attractive in the first place.