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scatter site

noun

Definitions

  1. An area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people

    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.

    • It is designed for single-family use in subdivisions or scatter sites and available as a standardized product […]
    • Living conditions in scatter sites depend largely on landlords' compliance and a little bit of luck.
    • 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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