Folks,

While you expend your inner rage on this issue, please understand that they are adding a form of instanced housing based around the idea of apartments, it's just not here yet, but it sill be here. Part of the reason they are adding the flower-pots is to help people be able to garden in their Personal Chamber if they are unable to obtain a house. But Instanced housing is being added in a subsequent patch. Presumably in 3.4 or 3.5. I believe that they will also be adding an entirely new housing area which means every server's housing supply will increase by 33% at a stroke when that is implemented. The new housing area will not be implemented until they have a housing transfer system in place to allow existing owners of houses the opportunity to purchase a plot in the new areas and transfer their home, including all furniture items. That will result in some plots being free'd up in existing areas as well.

Patience is not a virtue, it's a necessity.