Because it was Communist and ruling over a bunch of mixed-ethnic peasdants?
Absolute totalitarianism.
If you own the home, you should be able to do whatever you want there.
The "War on Some Drugs" scam has kept many government employees moving upward with promotions but has a high human cost.
Is this a FEMA camp, prison, high school, or just another Silicon Valley start-up?
Price control is the communist solution to make a bad situation into a disaster. If communism worked all communist nations wouldn't have failed.