Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHOENIX — Some shipping containers that once stood on Arizona’s border to keep people out are now being converted into tiny homes ...

Shipping containers are a necessary component of nearly every cargo vessel that crosses the Atlantic. But while they're built to hold a wide variety of goods, supplies, and a lot more, some people ...

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For now, it's just a sliver of land and an old abandoned house at the corner of Bumpas and Fitzhugh streets on McKinney's east side. But if all goes according to plan, town homes built from shipping ...

EAST BRANDYWINE >> What one person may see as a shipping container, another sees as a community center. Members of the Hopewell United Methodist Church (UMC) have spent many of their weekends this ...

An Oakland entrepreneur is converting shipping containers into affordable housing. Luke Iseman lives in a shipping container in Oakland. “Fed up with rent, I realized it would be cheaper to buy a ...

CLEMSON, S.C. — Resources to solve the housing crisis in Haiti may already be on hand. Some Clemson University researchers have been experimenting with ways to convert shipping containers into ...

Housing affordability issues in Australia have resulted in people looking for alternative ways to build accommodation more cheaply. A recent worldwide trend has been to convert shipping containers to ...