Will lottery destroy or fix housing?

[Somnolence]

The new system is weird and I wonder how it will work out, given that you need to enter lottery for one plot you want (per faq "You may only apply for a single plot per character.").
So if you want to get a small house and you are a new player with only money for one you will pick random one from the 960 available? The RNG of how many would complete for your specific chosen plot is impossible to predict, given that 30% of active playing population has a house.
Since there is no reliable data, lets just assume on Zodiark which has 15k max level characters those represent constantly playing players. So each such plot could have like 10 people competing for one. Looks grim...