'Build a wall': emergency housing plan for homeless in Silicon Valley met with fear

Thousands in San Jose are sleeping on the street, and the city has proposed temporary 'tiny homes' to help. But residents say: not in my backyard

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Chants of "build a wall" rang through the meeting room in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose. But this was not a call for a barrier along the Mexican border - it was a cry to exclude homeless people.

At the gathering convened by a city councilmember last week, several hundred locals met to discuss a controversial plan to build emergency housing in this affluent city, and get a handle on the homelessness crisis roiling it.