11.   Many people settled so far from New York because they could not afford houses closer to the city.

12.   More than half were apartments, suggesting that only the rich can now afford a house.

13.   Now I can afford a house.

14.   Others present information on property tax rates, schools and town amenities and include calculators that allow you to figure out how much house you can afford.

15.   Their wealth and taste afforded them houses that whispered luxury through humble materials handled like precious treasure and set off by details of breathtaking inventiveness and exquisite artistry.

16.   This is what makes members who cannot afford a house in the Hamptons feel rich.

17.   When Nasser gave up his job, he was already too poor to afford a house of his own or get married.

18.   When I was a kid, most could afford houses in the San Fernando Valley.

19.   Without mortgage deductibility, he says, fewer families could afford big-ticket houses.

20.   Others said they moved here because they would never have been able to afford a house without the massive government grants and loans given to many settlers.