Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

The housing world has never been constant. Every other time, something new comes up and takes over the space. One that has marked its spot and stuck to it is shipping container homes. Photo courtesy ...

A Texas couple spent $60k building their dream home in a charming rural area near their big city hometown — using just two 40 ft. shipping containers. Lexi Newkirk, 24, and her husband, Diego, 25, ...

With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

After his longtime home was damaged in Hurricane Irma, a local artist/collector made the "impractical" choice to patchwork ...

Developer Abdul Arif plans to build shipping container housing in the SoCe neighborhood in Wichita, and neighbors are not ...

Newark is among a growing number of cities turning to an unconventional solution for the housing shortage — shipping containers. Normally used to transport goods and merchandise on massive cargo ships ...

In the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, a new affordable multifamily housing project using shipping containers resulted in 24 micro-units for formerly unhoused residents, according to Fast Company. ...

OGDEN — Ogden officials are launching efforts to see whether storage units have a place in the city's residential neighborhoods as a six-story apartment building in Salt Lake City made of repurposed ...

UPPER POTTSGROVE — Township commissioners were recently presented with a plan to partially develop a self-described “eyesore” at the end of Commerce Drive. This is the plan Richard Almquist presented ...

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A six-story building in downtown Phoenix is made almost entirely of shipping containers on the outside. On the inside, visitors will find vacation rentals with all of the essentials, along with a ...