They were designing affordable housing that needs efficient strategies to reduce costs without affecting housing adequacy. Accordingly, this paper tries to clarify the potential of adaptability strategies for affordable housing design. These strategies provide the ability of housing for merge, division, growth, and changing uses but in a minimum physical way. It is acknowledged that designing adaptability is an important approach for designing a sustainable housing environment because adaptability strategies are considered social, environmental, and economic concepts. Such strategies enhance the ability of housing to adapt to the different needs of users through time. Therefore this paper analyzes strategies for designing adaptable housing and their suitability for affordable housing design. To do so, three values of designing affordability are chosen: decreasing the area of housing, decreasing the amount of building materials, and simplicity of implementing methods. Thus, the paper highlights the potential of adaptability strategies for achieving the previous values. We will use the SWOT analysis method in order to highlight strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the adaptability strategies in terms of affordability values. The paper concludes that adaptability is a high-potential approach for affordable housing design because it could provide many positive results. Therefore, the proposed control of strategies and recommendations of this paper may assist designers in enhancing opportunities and reducing weaknesses and threats of adaptability strategies in order to maintain the values of affordable housing design in their projects.