Recent articles in the media have drawn attention to the high cost of urban housing. Some are logical and hard to avoid, while others are due to excessive profiteering and party patronage.  But there is another bizarre, little known reason…

Recent articles in the press have drawn attention to the high costs of urban housing.Some of them are logical and hard to avoid, while others are because of excessive profiteering and party patronage.  But there is another bizarre, little known…