The way the lottery is setup, there's no reason why they couldn't change the "bid time" to something short. I think with the short supply, the bid time should be something much shorter. Make it like the 12 hour window we had before when people would spam placards. It would probably keep the bids down to just players that are actually looking for housing instead of those that come in on a whim to look.

Of course, until auto-demo is back on, it won't matter.