Affording

Thus was the Master a second time engaged in the most delicate and dangerous of all tasks, that of affording support and assistance to a beautiful and helpless being, who, as seen before in a similar situation, had already become a favourite of his imagination, both when awake and when slumbering.

The curvilinear roof gives beauty to the design as well as affording more head room inside than the ordinary straight rafter.

My concern isn't so much about buying a house but rather affording the mortgage.