Please elaborate what "affordable housing" means to you ? If the cost of housing is not "affordable" then perhaps the economic policies that have discouraged employers from creating jobs that would make housing "affordable" should change. Perhaps persons who are making $10 an hour should not be able to "afford" a house ? Perhaps not being able to "afford" a house would incentive these persons to better themselves by increasing their earning power so they can "afford" a house. I am dealing with this within my own extended family as well, kids who want to drop out of school and have a car, house etc...Well...That is not the way life works.