The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long urged local housingauthorities to 'deconcentrate' Section 8 properties in poor neighbourhoods.
deconcentrate in American English
(diˈkɑnsənˌtreit)
transitive verbWord forms: -trated, -trating
to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize
Derived forms
deconcentration
noun
Word origin
[1885–90; de- + concentrate]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, reactor, seminar, toner, twoferde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)