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Definitions for affordability
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  1. affordabilitynoun

    The extent to which something is affordable, as measured by its cost relative to the amount that the purchaser is able to pay.

    First-time home buyers are feeling the squeeze of higher interest rates with mortgage affordability at its worst level for 16 years.

  2. Etymology: afford + -ability

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of affordability in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of affordability in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of affordability in a Sentence

  1. Bob Pinnegar:

    Each passing month further escalates the risk of losing an ever increasing amount of rental housing, ultimately jeopardizing the availability of safe, sustainable and affordable housing for all Americans, flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster.

  2. Bob Pinnegar:

    Flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster.

  3. Cigna CEO David Cordani:

    It's going to increase choice, not decrease choice. It's going to increase affordability, not decrease affordability.

  4. Air Force Secretary Deborah James:

    We've kind of learned some lessons from the not-too-distant past about what happens when you don't keep stressing affordability, affordability, affordability.

  5. Jonathan Miller:

    Over the past few years, we've passed the affordability threshold, with the loss of the ability to comfortably use all the amenities that characterize living in a city -- restaurants, retail, bars, all the cultural events that were at your beck and call as a resident of Manhattan -- people are questioning it. Those were the salve on affordability.

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