GALVESTON, Texas — A standing-room-only crowd packed into the Island Community Center on Monday at the Galveston Housing Authority’s public hearing about proposed scattered sites.
The homes on scattered sites are part of the Galveston Housing Authority’s plan to rebuild 569 public housing units that were damaged during Hurricane Ike and later demolished.
Of the 569 units, housing authority officials have said they want to build single-family or duplex developments at 50 scattered sites.
Unlike traditional public housing developments, the units are scattered in neighborhoods throughout the city to avoid concentrations of poor.
