Definitions for affordable housing
af·ford·able hous·ing

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1. Affordable housing

   Affordable housing is housing deemed affordable to those with a median household income . as rated by country, province, region or municipality by a recognized Housing Affordability Index. In Australia, the National Affordable Housing Summit Group developed their definition of affordable housing as housing that is, "...reasonably adequate in standard and location for lower or middle income households and does not cost so much that a household is unlikely to be able to meet other basic needs on a sustainable basis." In the United Kingdom affordable housing includes "social rented and intermediate housing, provided to specified eligible households whose needs are not met by the market." Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to a number of forms that exist along a continuum - from emergency shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental, to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing and ending with affordable home ownership. The notion of housing affordability became widespread in the 1980s in Europe and North America. A growing body of literature found it problematic. Notably, the shift in UK housing policy away from housing need to the more market-oriented analyses of affordability was challenged by Whitehead. This article discusses the principles that lie behind the concepts of need and affordability and the ways they have been defined.

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1. affordable housingadjective

   A form of public housing built on public land that is affordable and accessible to all

   Affordable housing is now defined as public housing

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 19, 2021  

How to pronounce affordable housing?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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How to say affordable housing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of affordable housing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of affordable housing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of affordable housing in a Sentence

1. Mary Benton:

   The administration has the authority to select a housing development regardless of the staff’s recommendations as was thoroughly discussed in a public housing committee, this development would have provided seniors with affordable housing in an area where none had been built with Harvey multi-family funds and was supported by the District E council member.

2. Carla Sims:

   The rest of the homes were to be priced between $250,000 and upwards of $600,000, in Yellow Springs, and in many other places, that is not considered affordable housing.

3. Kitty Block:

   It’s very hard to find affordable housing that allows pets.

4. Diane Yentel:

   To be able to understand the eviction crisis that we're facing today, we have to recognize where we were before Covid-19 came to our country -- and that was in the midst of a severe affordable housing crisis.

5. Carla Sims:

   Dave Chappelle didn't kill affordable housing, concerned residents and a responding Village Council ‘killed’ a half-baked plan which never actually offered affordable housing.

References

1. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=affordable housing