Can someone define what "affordable" housing is supposed to be?

You look at Buffalo and they build homes that are subsidized by others. Is that what "affordable" housing is? just having someone else pay for it? Some of the homes subsidized look far nicer than like what my one grandfather had on south ogden.

I don't remember a basement at all. A small longer wash room with a old washer, a kitchen, 1 small bathroom, 1 small living room attached to another small front room.. one lower small bedroom and a room that was a bedroom or would have been 1/2 an attic for the most part.

Why are they not building small really affordable homes versus stuff ranging upwards of 100,000 or more calling it affordable housing?

They will be tearing it down soon.

old house

Just because you force others to pay for something doesn't mean it's affordable housing. All it means is someone else had their money used to help someone buy a home they can't afford in the first place.