The phrase "affects the kind of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one factor influences or determines the nature or type of something else.
Example: "The climate in a region affects the kind of crops that can be successfully grown there."
Alternatives: "influences the type of" or "determines the nature of".
"It lowers the value and affects the kind of people who are willing to move here.
Ultimately, this affects the kind of job they do in teaching our children".
Humidity affects the kind of constituents that escape, with alcohol becoming more concentrated in wine stored under conditions of low humidity and weakening with high humidity.
This affects the kind of content that is put in front of them, the types of games a Web site will have them play, or whether their on-site behavior is broadcast to Facebook or Twitter, or other sites.
She told Marie Claire: "I'm sure I should have some very well-developed view on [porn's] effect on society, the ethics behind it and how it affects the kind of relationship between men and women and how it objectifies women.
Third, luck affects the kind of person you are (constitutive luck).
And this greater openness affects the kinds of stories that can be told.
Yet, I've observed that gender greatly affects the kinds of compliments my children receive.
It affects the kinds of powerful, scarily driven, sleep-deprived, sometimes demagogic people we as an institution are putting out into the world.
Researchers at the University of Oregon's Biology and Built Environment Center, a collaboration of architects and biologists who study how design affects the kinds of microbes that live among us, and how it influences our health, recently examined the microbiomes -- the ecosystems of thousands of microorganisms -- on the skin of three roller derby teams before and after a competition.
Because gender has previously been shown to affect a number of inferences made from the face, here we investigated the hypothesis that gender of both voter and candidate affects the kinds of facial impressions that predict voting behavior.
