scatter site

scatter site (plural scatter sites)

1. An area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than concentrated in one place.
   • 1976, Cost effective housing systems for disaster relief, volume 4, page 131:

     It is designed for single-family use in subdivisions or scatter sites and available as a standardized product […]

   • 2002, City Limits, volume 27, number 8, page 24:

     Living conditions in scatter sites depend largely on landlords' compliance and a little bit of luck.

   • 2007, Jill Gerson, Hope Springs Maternal, page 10:

     Between 1998 and 2005, the number of homeless families sleeping in New York City shelters, purchased hotel rooms ("welfare hotels"), and scatter site housing increased by 95 percent, […]

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