The word affordable needs a person attached to it.

Affordable is meaningless without saying for whom. A price that is unremarkable for one household is out of reach for another, and the word gets used precisely because it sounds like a property of the thing rather than a relation between the thing and a person’s circumstances.

Whenever you hear something described as affordable, ask on what income. Attach a person to it. This matters in housing, healthcare, education, and any decision you make on behalf of other people, because the word lets a serious question pass as if it had already been answered.