I think one of the biggest mis-leading concepts here is that we were all under the assumption that Housing would be AVAILABLE as of 2.1, not some long term endgame goal to be achieved. I've got a Role-Playing Free Company of about 130 people on Gilgamesh, and I'm proud of our ability to raise 10 million gil since launch. The argument now seems to have changed to whether or not housing is a luxury or not. If we want to use the real world as a parallel, housing is NOT a luxury. NICE houses are, certainly, but everyone needs a roof over their head. Now let's remove the real-world parallel. Housing will be immediately available for those Companies that reach the new appropriate rank and throw out some insurmountable slush fund into the gil sink that SE has created while the 99.9% rest of us scramble to the broken marketing economy to hock our wares at deflated prices due to botters and RMT. SE drew a line in the sand, and they're the only ones on the other side of it.