Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
It's not hard to work out approximately. Lucky Bancho gives a fairly good idea of population. The number of houses are fixed, paissahouse shows how many are available and the housing census shows how many are FC/Personal.

But it's also not really useful. Of more use is how many people are currently in the lottery.

On siren, your server, 852 people are bidding for smalls in this round. So that's a pretty strong indication of the people who desire a house. We know the population is about 35,000 so, ~2.5% of people on Siren currently want a home. The other sites show 8.8% have one.

Of the remainder,
* some will have homes,
* some won't be interested,
* some will have stopped playing in the last two months, and
* some will have thought it still too hard and not bother.

Errors in the Bancho numbers make up the rest.

I think ~10% interested in housing sounds about right tbh.

SE can make these people happier, mostly. Well as much as people can be happy.
My more hypothetical question is if housing were guaranteed, how many of the people who aren't participating would be interested in getting a house? I think the lack of "interest" in housing is more of a housing supply problem then a potential want for a house problem. I get saying ~10% of players are actively trying to get a house or have one, but I believe the want for a house is much higher.