Oh and to the crux of the issue, at one of the player fan fests (forget which one) YP said in a live interview that they would look into allowing people to share personal houses with partners because 'it would be easy to do as the systems are already in place, so we can look into adding this in the future.' And while this is not an official 'it's planned/incoming/you can count on it happening' statement, I am thinking that some of the friends lists adjustments might also be the pre-cursor to allowing personal homes to be opened up for sharing amongst spouses/friends.

Lastly, it's in SE's best interest (esp on high-pop/high housing demand servers) to permit people to at least share homes with spouses if not people on their friends lists (specific friends lists catergories), in general as it might lessen some of the demand, freeing up potential resources etc. (And if SE ties it to 'needing to be bonded' to share...well then they can potentially milk that golden cash cow that is gold/plat weddings a little more now can't they :P)