Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing
NOAH is an acronym for Naturally Occuring Affordable Housing.
Steve King proposes an alternative term HAUTMSS:
"As a corrective to the benign and misleading phrase NOAH, I propose HAUTMSS (Housing Affordable Until the Market Speculation Starts; suggested pronunciation: “hot mess”) as a more appropriate term."
References
- King, Steve. “Thoughts on the Unnatural Occurrence of Cheap Housing.” Shelterforce, April 25, 2017. https://shelterforce.org/2017/04/25/thoughts-unnatural-occurrence-cheap-housing/. "CDCs [Community Development Corporations[ and affordable housing developers have an opportunity to prevent displacement, preserve affordability, and improve the habitability of neglected housing."