In that "Meeting" before the wipe, This was announced as a change. We were told we will have only 3 houses but house storage will increase.
Either increase the virtual, or now a month after wipe, let us purchase 5 houses. The server has been at a very high population, active players bought homes, there isn't many good houses left, no reason to not be able to buy more if storage stays the same.
My two cents.