A market with more homes per housing seeker is more likely to contain one for you.

As long as that ratio is less than one, some people are excluded. Price is what that looks like in a market. Under central planning it’s typically lotteries and waiting lists.

Supply/demand balance in the region is much more important than the characteristics of any particular unit, and that’s what pro-growth activism is targeting.

It becomes approximately fifo. Oldest or otherwise least desirable housing becomes affordable housing as demand is met with newer more desirable housing being built. But if you're never building new housing, nothing gets pushed out the bottom to become affordable.

I hate to be the one to tell you, but it's not all about you.