'affordable community' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a community or neighborhood in which the cost of living is relatively low. For example, "Raleigh has several affordable communities in the suburbs that are great for first-time homeowners."
Lilac (an acronym of low-impact living affordable community) is built on the site of a former school in an unfashionable area of the city.
Audrey Verma, who lives in one of the affordable blocks, says High Point Village is "a gated community within which there is another gate keeping the affordable community away from the private community".
Low Impact Living: A field guide to ecological, affordable community building by Paul Chatterton, a founder of Lilac, is available for £26.99 including free P&P at bookshop.theguardian.com or by calling 0330 333 6846.
Their ethos of using affordable community gardening to improve urban living was also evident in their Riot of Colour garden designed by Sandy for the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
After five years of work, the member-led LILAC project (which means Low Impact Living Affordable Community) has a £410,000 grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) under their belt, along with a major Social Enterprise Award, LILAC plans to start building this summer.
Given that it is the most affordable community left in Silicon Valley, the city's economy also supplies low-wage labor to the neighboring affluent suburbs of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton.
But by positioning itself as a more affordable, community-based alternative to huge drug manufacturers, compounders have attracted broad support from politicians.
Many upscale areas in Westchester happen to abut more affordable communities where workers tend to live.
Steven Baker, a broker at Lynda Baker Realty in Hicksville, said that while prices were rising, Hicksville remained "one of the most affordable communities on Long Island".
I understand the "yikes we're barely making it now" kind of panic that residents of Cortlandt, New Rochelle or one of the other "affordable" communities expressed when told to expect a whopping increase.
More than a dozen village communities of between 5,000 and 20,000 homes, each of them a good mix of houses, mid rise and high rise flats, typically half for rent, half for sale, creating vibrant affordable communities across London, complete with schools, shopping, parks and leisure, cultural attractions, NHS hubs.
