Affordable housing must comply with the same standards as market-rate housing. Because affordable housing is often funded in part with public money, sometimes it needs to comply with additional restrictions and higher standards than market-rate housing. Housing such as the newly built Buttermilk Falls Townhomes in Ellenville, NY, the recently completed The Birches at Esopus, a senior living community, and Park Heights Senior Housing in Rosendale, provide examples of quality affordable housing that blend in with market-rate housing here in Ulster County. Affordable housing is not affordable because it's built with "sub-quality" materials; it is affordable in the sense that it is less costly to live in because it is supported by additional public and private funds.