The gain is that a lot more people get to live there now, which benefits all of those people. It no longer being for you is more than made up for by the fact that it is now for so many more other people.
In my opinion it's a stretch to say that an oversubscription on housing "benefits all of those people". I enjoy Minneapolis, but it's in a very odd state right now.
Huh? If all the housing is occupied then how is it possibly an oversubscription? If anything it sounds like an undersubscription -- even more people would live there if there were more housing, but there isn't, so they can't.
