Anybody can request their house to be removed, I don't think it's any special handling. https://www.macworld.com/article/353725/remove-your-house-ap...

Saw this on Apple News suggest on side bar but when clicked, it said it was unavailable and disappeared from Apple News altogether. Still a few stories about it on Apple News from other news outlets though.

Don't know whether it glitched or was purposely removed.