Shipping Containers

Recycling shipping containers into housing has been growing in popularity, but the materials they are coated with may be cause for alarm.

A project now being considered by the City of Vancouver, B.C., would overhaul a handful of shipping containers to provide housing for the homeless.

Officials in the Dominican Republic have approved the creation of cities made of home built out of shipping containers -- part of efforts to aid earthquake-rattled Haiti.

Interest in houses made from shipping containers has been rising in Hawaii, where these inexpensive homes' designs can range from studios to multistory apartments.

A developer in New Jersey is looking to shipping containers as building blocks for affordable housing.

Developers in Detroit are planning a condominium project completely made out of used shipping containers. But city approval is needed before the project can move forward.