A streamlined cargo container home on display at the Kentucky State Fair was met with rave reviews and will soon house a single mother in Appalachia. Next year, five of the steel boxes will be ...

HARVEY, La. (WGNO) – In Louisiana, with his West Bank crew, Josh Clark is in the business of building and rebuilding. His construction site is inside a cargo container, s big steel shipping box built ...

Cargo containers, long a staple of international trade, are designed to be affordable, sturdy and water-tight. So it’s no surprise that for decades they’ve been used by the military, the needy — or ...

Move over tiny homes, there is a new housing trend for 2018: Shipping containers. From Fort Worth, to Dallas to McKinney, unwanted shipping containers are being converted into homes. Allen Mederos ...

The idea of turning cargo containers into homes has graduated from cool to uber-cool. How do we know? Well, there now are knockoffs of them, in China. Yes, that's more than a bit strange. Today we'll ...

Could the nation’s international trade deficit — the fact that we import billions of dollars more in goods than we export — help the homeless men and women who roam the streets of Baltimore? If that ...

Cargo containers, once considered the domain of the homeless, are trending today as the foundations of new homes, both simple and elaborate. These boxes of steel — currently only allowed to be used ...

On a cramped corner lot in South Miami, a venture backed by a national real estate group has won city permission to build a compact house out of two shipping containers and reserve it for a low-income ...

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