Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cargo container house. Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a ...

Many people dream of downsizing into a tiny house or off-grid cabin to reduce their expenses and simplify their lives. But the process of making that dream a reality can be both tricky and expensive, ...

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 ...

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI -- A local developer is building luxury-style homes out of shipping containers in Ypsilanti Township. Darius Smith, founder of ASJ Homes and the What’s Up Detroit show, is ...

A Boise startup that built homes from shipping containers rose to national acclaim five years ago. Today, the company is in transition. In 2019, workers at IndieDwell drove one of its steel prototypes ...

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 ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Worried they would never be able to afford to build their own home in Brooklyn, architect Michelle Bertomen and contractor David Boyle constructed one out ...

When Wanona Satcher founded her company, Mākhers Studio, in 2017, she knew she wanted to address the issue of affordable housing in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. With a background as a landscape ...

Explores a mix of housing solutions, including ADUs, container homes, and modular. Join the Brick by Brick team of solutions journalists as they look at three more supply-side responses to the housing ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — It's a house that stands out. That's because it's made out of shipping containers. Now, it's finished and ready for the welcome mat. This story is not just of a neat house, it's ...

Q: Can You Put a Container House on an Empty Plot of Land in L.A.? A: Those HGTV shows make it look easy, but so far there are no legal single-family residences in L.A. that have been fashioned from a ...