>We don't just let people put up houses on random pieces of land they don't own and live there.

The current lack of any serious action or even any real interest in solving the now generation old homeless problem makes shanty towns eventually inevitable. I know it will be embarrassing to have them scattered outside the richest cities in the country but for some unfathomable reason that is the economic path we chose.

I suggest Mt San Bruno will make a fine favela for what is already the world's richest 3rd world city in all but name.