Following on previous item about Sailer contours.
Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle.
In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure.
A similar development and formalizing happened in US before we got hard and cold in 1970, obeying our Kraut mentors and idols. The southeast corner of Manhattan was still informal when I was growing up there. The area near the river was partly the official City Dump and partly barrio. The informal houses and unofficial streets were permanent enough to show up on one of the USGS topo maps.
In Spokane before 1970, the river near Peaceful Valley had a similar barrio, which was treated as a community in newspaper articles.
Polistra's Mill 