Get Unica instead.

hhp

>Can anyone suggest any solution to attaining this font family and not selling house to afford it,

I hear the package comes with a free Mac. ;-)

Hrant - Unica is not available for licensing until someone convinces Linotype to loosen their grip.

Harmony - Here are some alternatives to Helvetica. Keep in mind that you can often buy single font styles rather than the entire family, so if you only need reg, bold, and italic, you needn’t sell house.

Stephen, it turns out that it is!
See from May 1 here: http://typophile.com/node/18387

hhp

Wow. That’s probably a mistake.

Don’t try to correct it, OK? :-)

hhp

It looks close to normal helvetica

But it was redrawn, and has many more weights, which are organized logically, similar to the way they are in Univers. And like Stephen says, you can purchase a few weights at a time. No need to sell the house. :-)

I see on the Linotype site that currently they are offering 1/2 price on the full family collections of Helvetica Neue.