> all housing is both affordable and unaffordable. Schrödinger’s housing. Ah, more pithy, meaningless slogans. Surely municipalities and landlords know the me

> all housing is both affordable and unaffordable. Schrödinger’s housing. Ah, more pithy, meaningless slogans. Surely municipalities and landlords know the median gross incomes of households in the areas they serve. Surely there are bands of income where certain types of housing are classified as "affordable" and then "cost-burden", and the quantity of households which fall into these bands are well-known to those who serve them. Landlords set the market rent based on what the market will bear. HUD sets the allowances according to market rent as well. Yes, to a homeless bum, all housing is unaffordable. To George Soros, it's all affordable housing. But you need to remember that the definition is proffered by Housing And Urban Development, a US Government agency which does things like subsidize rent and help people purchase homes, so I doubt that the state of feline vitality is entirely unknown to them.