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."