SE already said, the 'reclaim' was the first 'fix' to the situation. That has been implemented.
Also, house sharing is now a thing...so if you don't personally own a place, see if a friend who does would let you move in. But just being able to share takes some of the 'wannabe homeowners' off the market b/c they can now happily share w/ a spouse/partner/friend etc -which in many cases, was preferred over owning 2 anyway.

SE has also said they are currently working on a system to allow people to 'move' from one house to another. I suspect this is to fix the 'workshop' problem FC's have atm. But once they figure out how to let people move w/o loosing their workshop progress/maybe rare items, they were considering opening up Ishgard Housing as an option.

Ishgard is likely where the true 'fix' will happen.


Should it have taken this long. Well no. But they are working on it...without taking away stuff from active homeowners. That seems more win/win than any other solution.

Also 12-13 days more and plots will open up on every server. You've all had months of warning, so not having the gil+logging in when the first wave of foreclosures happens, would now be solidly on you. (If you really want a home bad enough I mean)....but even if you can't right now...after the 24th/25th....homes will randomly open up...you might just need to pay max to own them (which is still cheaper in most cases than the 'player sale' method).