If you don't eat or drink anything and spend no money, you'll have it paid off in forty years.

Time Magazine reports that China — in a sudden realization that it is in fact a communist country — is planning to crack down on housing complexes that cater to the rich. While housing prices in places like Shanghai have tripled in three years, land-ministry officials acknowledge that the availability of low-cost housing has been neglected:

The country cannot afford construction of large villas to meet the demand of a few high-end customers while sacrificing the interests of the majority.

With city dwellers making (according to Time) an average of $3,333 per year, the average price of a 100-square-meter apartment ($113,000) was simply out of reach. Okay, so something had to give, and I guess socialism with Chinese characteristics doesn't trust the market to work itself out on its own before an acute — and potentially socially destabilizing — housing shortage occurred.