Rough counts and math regarding Housing

I really hope SE is keeping track of the bids on housing, because I think it will help address the largest problem we have with housing - raw available house count.

With the new FC/individual housing split, we can see that there are 60 houses per ward, only 6 wards for individual houses, and 5 residential districts. This totals to 1800 houses per server.

While trying to strategically bid on the right house, we took some metrics on bids up to 12 hours before the lottery closed, and counts of bids for individual houses on Cactaur ranged from 3-20 (although this went up after I stopped counting). The 3s were all Small houses, Mediums were a minimum of 5, and Larges were a minimum of 8.

I know SE really doesn't want any empty wards, and is trying to slightly underestimate the player interest in individual housing, but even a conservative estimate would say that the demand is around 5 times the current supply. Therefore if they added another 12 wards per residential area of only individual housing, they would still fill up.

We really need MORE housing, just in any way. I plead with SE to check the numbers themselves and consider the larger servers like Cactaur (Balmung, Gilgamesh, etc) and prioritize more wards. It is a little insulting that we keep getting new furniture in seasonal events to hoard, since getting rid of them is permanent and we have nowhere to use them.

I think we need far less small houses and more Medium and Large houses for individuals. I personally, would rather buy an apartment than a small. For me it's medium or large, and I highly prefer a large not a medium.

I do believe this is the most frustrating part about it all!

A poster from Faerie on reddit confirmed Friday morning had 275 entries over all larges, and around 380 across all larges about 5 hours before the lottery ended. Most had about 9 entries and the hottub house had about 15 entries.

Small houses are honestly not worth it. The furnishing count is too low. The plot is tiny.

What they need is to make plots upgradable. This would have helped keep people at there current spot and just upgrade through in-game means like making players do missions via workshop and to be fair towards people who bought a medium or large, make players who are upgrading pay the value of the price they are trying to upgrade to. In order of course: Small to Medium. Medium to Large. This would help erase the relocating system, and this gives players who dont have a plot a chance at vacant plots that are up for bid.

As for private housings, I cant think of an idea of how (nor why) they would want a large private home. But as for FC's utilize the workshop: They already have a great idea with the subs and airships, they could have made it possible to make it a mission in the workshop for small houses to go through missions and gathering for mats to build there own upgrade to their plot. And of course, to be fair, they could add the final results where they have to pay the value of the size: Small 3,000,000+ gil, Medium 20,000,000+ gil and Large 50,000,000 gil which would depend on the location and plot value.

Large private homes have things like "rooms" and "lots of furnishing slots" and "large yard" and three floors.
I honestly don't know why anyone wants something smaller.