Imo, their main priority after 3.0 launch, in regards to housing, should be making housing available to everyone. There have already been numerous suggestions on how this could be done from instanced housing in main cities, to new wards generating each time one fills up, so that's a debate for another thread.

Several of the highest population servers, every plot has been taken for months, and hardly seems fair to ask those people to leave their friends behind, not to mention the huge inventory/gil sacrificed due to restrictions on server transfers, just to get a plot of land.

This is coming from someone who already has a house.