The commissioners would do anything to promote affordable housing, but then when an opportunity comes along, the neighbors are afraid. Affordable housing creates traffic problems, and the density brings down property values – which, if you think about it, is another way of creating affordable housing. And thus we see that we can use our system to make would-be creators of affordable housing lose a lot of money on engineers and architects in design phases for projects that never happen. The story just repeated itself in Henderson County.