If they are adamant to keep wards as they are, then they would be better served by adding instanced housing in addition. Which actually, they already did...with apartments. But they're terrible. I don't get why they don't work on improving the already functioning instanced housing so that their PAYING CUSTOMERS can be happy. I'm sure plenty of people would be just as happy if they could have a larger apartment, access to gardening and maybe if you gave them an instanced backyard. And allow FCs to have apartments with access to workshops.

Simple answer to the problem is right in front of them. Don't know why they won't act on it though. /shrugs

That being said, it seems on most servers many people are able to get housing. In smaller servers like mine, even 3 hours later there are still entire wards empty in some places. I think we're alright now but the larger servers are still struggling.