There's a lively debate about whether housing made from shipping containers makes sense. After all, shipping containers were designed specifically for transporting goods efficiently around the world, ...

When the cost of a single-family home hewn from wood and traditional construction materials is out of reach for many low-income Phoenix residents, and hell, some middle-income earners too — the ...

Ten massive dumpsters of debris hauled away and six years later, the property has completely transformed into a rental community first envisioned by Champlin to be dotted with tiny homes. He ended up ...

In the Fishers Nickel Plate District south of 116 th Street, developers have built dozens of modern homes on small lots where bungalows once stood. The custom and semi-custom 3-story townhouses ...

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 ...

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The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

In a continued effort to address homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona, the city has turned to shipping containers. Earlier this year, the City of Phoenix opened the Phoenix Navigation Center, or what ...

In 2019, Jerry Champlin and his wife, Tania McEvoy, bought a home on a massive plot of land in Buena Vista, CO. Together with their children, they spent the entirety of the COVID-19 lockdown restoring ...