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Lottery wasn't designed to solve the housing shortage. It was designed to solve the "spam placard for 12-24 hours" problem. And it did just that. How many players camped a plot for 24 hours non-stop clicking placards when the lottery started?

Zero.

It worked and now that they might have resolved the winner 0 bug, it looks like a success. The housing shortage is a different problem entirely not related to the lottery.