Anybody can request their house to be removed, I don't think it's any special handling. <a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/353725/remove-your-house-apple-maps.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.macworld.com/article/353725/remove-your-house-ap...</a>
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.<p>Don't know whether it glitched or was purposely removed.