Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being publicly funded low-income housing units scattered throughout middle-income residential areas.
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The Palestinians are not always wrong to complain that municipal authorities are placing unreasonable demands on them in seeking building permits while facilitating scatter-site Jewish housing (with no security value) in densely populated Arab neighborhoods.
unknown title 2009
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The Palestinians are not always wrong to complain that municipal authorities are placing unreasonable demands on them in seeking building permits while facilitating scatter-site Jewish housing (with no security value) in densely populated Arab neighborhoods.
unknown title 2009
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You can follow the thread through to Nixon’s opposition to busing and scatter-site housing as mechanisms for reversing segregation and his “New Federalism,” or Republican opposition to “activist judges” and “racial quotas” since the 70s, or Reagan’s famous embrace of “states rights” in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Magazines Not For Liberty 2009
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