scatter site

scatter site

English

Noun

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, issue 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, […]