prices out
Makes unaffordable for
To price out is to make something unaffordable through high cost.
Rising rents price out longtime residents.
Gentrification prices working-class families out of their neighborhoods.
The phrase often carries criticism—someone or something is being excluded not by explicit prohibition but by economic force.
Less commonly, to price out means to calculate the total cost: We need to price out the renovation before deciding.
- affordabilityState of being purchasable
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
- housing crisisSevere lack of affordable dwellings
- real estate boomRapid housing market growth
- class divisionSeparation by socioeconomic status
economic justice · wage stagnation · inflation · sticker shock · demographic shifts · displacement · financial hardship · gentrification · social mobility · income inequality · public policy · buyer's remorse · competitive markets · outbid · urban sprawl · market saturation · cost-benefit analysis · cost of living
prices outprices in
Includes expected cost
subsidizes · underwrites · includes · welcomes · democratizes
prices outsubsidizes
Partially finances something
underwrites · funds · discounts · sponsors · bankrolls
prices outattracts
Draws toward itself
retains · includes · incentivizes · entices · accommodates
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