Sep 29 2008
Stirring STUFF
This is interesting stuff –i thnk so
A tough time for the economy, and the housing industry, in particular.
Now, an entrepreneur from New Mexico has a creative idea for low-cost housing.
Albuquerque home builder, Brian McCarthy, and three partners, have built a prototype house out of a standard 320-square-foot shipping container. Each small home would contain a kitchen, a bathroom with a toilet, and a sleeping area.
The partners plan to convert about 3,000 containers into homes, next year, and sell them for about $8,000 apiece.
The “shipyard” in Berkley uses these metal shipping containers as art studios. Already in the Netherlands they use shipping containers as low cost student housing. These containers are easy to stack, take old containers, put them to better use and can create low cost housing easily.IN the can man.
