How to Use unaffordable in a Sentence

unaffordable

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• The pricey homes in the most expensive places just got too unaffordable when rates inevitably spiked.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The bank attributes much of the West’s migration woes to unaffordable housing.
  — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
• Users in some countries with a lower standard of living have said that the fee is unaffordable.
  — Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Aguillard, the superintendent, said that the new rate is unaffordable for the draft budget for next year.
  — Sunni Bean, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• The buyers who didn’t pay extra to lock in those rates long-term are now looking at monthly payments that may be unaffordable.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Inflation has cooled in recent months, but the preceding two-year spike has left many goods unaffordable, said the 52-year-old father of five.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Such laws have been good for the business of law, but legal services are unaffordable for many Americans.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Without the free passes, the parks would be unaffordable, many employees said.
  — Mike Schneider, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• The rent has become even more unaffordable for twenty- and thirty-somethings who didn’t (or couldn’t) leave higher-cost-of-living cities for the suburbs at the same rate as their parents.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Also, even with its lower costs, the service still may be unaffordable for some patients.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2022
• The current housing market has not been this unaffordable since 1984.
  — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Despite hopes from lawmakers that the ban might bring them down, short-term rentals are just one piece of a complex unaffordable housing problem.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
• The cost of care Even before historic levels of inflation, health care was unaffordable for a vast swath of the population.
  — Elaine Chen and Isabella Cueto, STAT, 29 Dec. 2022
• Seattle, which saw its average home size drop 18% in five years, is one of the markets that was already close to being, if not already, unaffordable.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
• Unmanned ships, like unmanned planes, tanks, and systems, are here to save the Pentagon from unaffordable weapons systems.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2022
• But Miami also ranks as one of the nation’s most unaffordable cities for housing.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Higher rates make buying a home even more unaffordable after years of soaring prices.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• In fact, the unaffordable housing crisis for those in low-, middle- and even higher-income levels isn’t getting better, at least not yet.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• In May of last year, Fortune reported that builders had no choice but to build smaller homes because of how unaffordable housing had become.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Housing, in particular, remains unaffordable for many—things haven’t been this bad since the 1980s.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
• Keawe spends more than a third of his monthly income on his housing, meaning the rent is unaffordable by federal measures.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2024
• The Turkish lira was in free fall, making basic goods unaffordable for much of the population.
  — Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2023
• But at some point, housing could become so unaffordable that the market completely freezes up.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022
• But they were quickly getting priced out of nearby rentals and worried that their apartment would soon become unaffordable.
  — Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
• Not faring so well was Johannesburg, which ranked bottom of the 50-strong list, with those surveyed branding the South African city unaffordable and unsafe.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• To be sure, despite the recent dip, rents remains unaffordable for many Americans.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Maui had been facing a serious housing crunch and unaffordable prices before being hit by the deadliest fire in the US in over a century.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• Spending more than 30 percent of one’s income on housing was considered unaffordable in the study.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Housing is at unaffordable levels Even once affordable cities are now priced out of many first-time buyers' budgets.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The union has argued that the high cost of living and rapidly rising prices make living in central Florida unaffordable for many of the workers under the current wage structure.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024