How to Use unaffordable in a Sentence

unaffordable

adjective

• To be sure, housing has long been unaffordable for the poor.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
• If the interest rate shoots up at the end of the initial term, the buyer may be on the hook for an unaffordable payment.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• What’s more, home for the four of them is the latest in a succession of house-sitting gigs in unaffordable L.A.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
• 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
• For a record half of U.S. renters, their housing is now unaffordable, Harvard finds.
  — Daniel Wood, NPR, 20 June 2024
• Rents and house prices have risen, making more of the state’s housing unaffordable to people with low incomes.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2022
• Huntsville and Auburn are two Alabama cities the story said will be unaffordable within the next decade.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2022
• Higher interest rates mean that the cost of a new home mortgage is now unaffordable for many.
  — David Ditch, National Review, 11 July 2024
• Even though many life-saving drugs are vastly unaffordable to people who need them most, drug prices on the whole are only up 0.4% year-over-year.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Housing: Still unaffordable Home prices are at a record high and have been climbing for 11 straight months as housing shortages persist.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 26 June 2024
• But why does insulin — a medication that’s been around for more than 100 years — remain unaffordable for many people in the U.S.?
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 24 July 2022
• Three in four people who had an unaffordable bill got some type of financial relief.
  — Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Sep. 2024
• Insurance is unaffordable and the governor has banned more books than in any other state.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 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
• If the net price is more than total family resources, the college is unaffordable.
  — Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024