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- noun The state or condition of being
unaffordable .
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Examples
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The problem of unaffordability is most apparent for the nearly 47 million Americans who lack health insurance.
Wonk Room » Defining Affordability In Health Care Reform 2009
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We have to marvel at the reasons given by Ms Smith at the Police Federation conference: she claimed the phasing was necessary to keep inflation under control, to protect the mortgages of policemen and women, and that the "unaffordability" would result in the sacking of officers.
Archive 2008-05-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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It added that about 25 per cent of Canadian households already rely on housing subsidies or experience periods of housing "unaffordability," a figure it expects to increase.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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It added that about 25 per cent of Canadian households already rely on housing subsidies or experience periods of housing "unaffordability," a figure it expects to increase.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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- Still, the extent of "unaffordability" varies substantially by province, with measures running as high as 48\% above average in the B.C. standard townhouse segment and as low as 6\% above average in the Quebec detached bungalow segment.
Mississauga Real Estate, Homes, TREB & MLS Blog by Mark Argentino 2009
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"unaffordability" is much less of a threat at this stage than it was at the onset of the
Mississauga Real Estate, Homes, TREB & MLS Blog by Mark Argentino Mark Argentino 2009
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Onerous government regulations and unaffordability combine to make private-sector defined-benefit plans extremely unappealing.
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Housing unaffordability for poor people comes about because the rich people are buying the houses and pushing the price up.
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Beyond the increasing unaffordability of ESI for employees, employers -- big and small -- have the same problem with no end in sight.
John Geyman: Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Time to Pronounce it Dead John Geyman 2011
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The Spectator claimed that CLTs could be "a silver bullet" for London's unaffordability problem.
Ken Livingstone backs London Co-operative Party's housing agenda 2011
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