While they might be the main target, who knows why this guy was gone. Could be in service to his country or something. Kind of a crappy deal for people who have legitimate reasons to be away, and all that's going to happen is that all the houses are going to be full up by active players, not much different than it is now except with a tiny caveat.

I guess it's too late for this to be reconsidered, but I sorely hope they intend to address the lack of housing in an actual way instead of generating only much misery and false hopes.