Patience. Perseverance. That makes them more worthy. At least prior to the lottery.

They are the people that camped out for dozens upon dozens of hours clicking on a placard to get their house. I should know. I did it. I have a friend that clicked for 12 hours or more at a time on several houses, before they got one. I clicked for hours on them.

When I finally got my house, it was because someone swooped in and relocated, and was kind enough to tell where their prior plot was. I then went to bed. I woke up at around the 8 hour mark, started clicking, and got it within two hours. Because I kept trying. I didn't sit and complain. I played the tedious bid game and it paid off.

Then I managed to relocate later on to a better plot. And again to the current Small I have.

I have a character on Balmung, where housing is as bad as it gets on Crystal. I woke up at 5am on 6.1 patch day when the new stuff opened. All so I could get an apartment on Balmung.

Did I win the lottery? Yeah I did. I have an FC I just started in January. Why? Because someone I trusted more than anyone in the world stabbed me in the back and stole my previous FC out from under me. I put my gil together so I could bid on a Mansion, something I have never had before. And one of those bids won.

Did I get it easy? Not at all. I checked all 18 wards on Wednesday and wrote down every bid count. I did it again on Friday to update. I used that data to look at the remaining plots with a single bid. I identified the plot that had the least amount of bids across all wards on my world. I identified the ward that had the least overall bids.

Where that data lined up, I made my bids. And I won. Because I did like everyone was doing before 6.1. I worked hard and I had patience.

Will that work for everyone? No. There isn't enough housing to go around. Instanced housing isn't going to work without increasing the costs. Is it fair? Not really, but you can't expect there to be one house for millions of characters in this game.

Can SE do things to fix this? Yes.
Will they do what is necessary to fix this? Probably not.

#1: All those grandfathered in with the change in Stormblood need to be made to relinquish their plots to the lottery. I don't care if they have maintained them all this time. Give them a refund for the cost.

#2: They need to start banning people exploiting the system. I've seen housing in Oceania where FCs are taking dozens of housing plots from mass transferring alts and FCs over to the server. But it's technically legal, so nothing will be done about it. Even if they are taking over entire wards.

#3: Hard rules and restrictions need to be put into place and enforced. No grandfathering anymore.
1 House per service account.
1 Apartment per world per service account. No more 1 apartment per character.
Apartments need to be subject to the same demolition timer as Housing. No more "once you own it, it's yours forever"