With the new lottery system, square enix basically emulated a section 8 / low-income housing... but worse.

The lottery system is a pain, and has actually INCREASED the pool of people to combat with trying to find a house (which aside tangent, housing SHOULD probably be more reserved for the players that dedicate all their time ON FFXIV, but that's besides the point) which is painful. The pool of maybe 20 people all clicking on a sign at the same time has increased (at least in balmung) to 1000-2000 people searching for a house.

It's fine if you're going to add a lottery system, but PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD add a priority system.

That way if you didn't get picked for housing one week, then you get placed in a pool of higher priority for the next week. That way if you KEEP losing the lottery, EVENTUALLY THROUGH ENOUGH SUFFERING, you will EVENTUALLY be guaranteed a house.

Like I fail to see how this wasn't thought about before implementing this system. Your chances of winning is stupidly low, that you're better off not bothering. At least with a priority system, You can get your hopes up and hopefully get it the next time with higher priority.