Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – Chances are you may have seen a stack of shipping containers on a train or on a cargo ship, but how about next door? An Evansville organization is tackling the affordable ...

Sonic Steel, the creator of the Mark T, recently completed another notable example of shipping container-based architecture.

Alachua County bought the motels, located on Southwest 13th Street, to provide permanent housing for the county’s homeless ...

The city of Fort Wayne added container homes to the zoning ordinance, which means requirements can be placed on their construction. Officials hope that allowing a new option of affordable living will ...

How Corpus Christi approaches a proposal to use shipping containers for affordable housing may set a precedent citywide. The concept proposed by developer Bryan Johnson would employ steel shipping ...

Officials stress that these containers have “anti-thermal coatings on interior walls and additional ceilings,” to make them suitable for living. However, in a country without reliable electricity for ...

The definition of a home varies from person to person. But you could never fault The Porter for not trying to be one, even though it lived its previous life as a shipping container. Alternative living ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you think about buying a home—or even renting one for a short period of time—your mind likely ...

Depending on who you ask, downsizing means a lot of different things to different people. Reduced costs of living, a more intentional and uncluttered life, a reconnection to the natural environment, ...