Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[Canadane]

Why should a failed FC with less members than what was needed to create it be able to hold land?

All FCs with less than 3 members should lose their houses BECAUSE of the shell FC problem. That frees up roughly 10% of the houses worldwide to either become personal houses (which there is a strong demand for) or gets them to FCs that don't have a house and have at least 4 members (which about half of the FCs that are 4+ members don't have an FC house IIRC).

All that would happen is the FCs throw on a couple extra alts to that shell FC.
An automated system will simply be bypassed one way or another.
We need GM crackdowns, but, like it or not they're playing by the games rules. So this will likely never happen.

There's a lovely large house unused by a shell FC that I've kept my eye on but it's never gone up for sale. It would be nice upgrade to have I'm pretty restricted in my current house lol.
While I can't tell by looking at a random FC if it's a shell or not this particular one doesn't really try to hide it, knowing the 'real' FC behind it.