OP is smart. The only way to win is to not play. People act like oh, if people enter theyll know how many of us want a house and theyll fix it. To that, I say they already have the information so it's fruitless. If something was gonna change it woulda happened by now. Instead theyll drip feed houses every like, couple expansions and eventually playerbase will probably drop to the point where you'll be able to get one. I seriously think there's more chance of people quitting the game en-masse, thus freeing up house spaces than there is SE actually fixing this problem permanently while the game actually has a somewhat healthy population, and not just fake band-aid patches.