Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UPDATED — In spring 2024, a lot of residents in the SoCe neighborhood just south of downtown were thrilled to hear of lawyer Abdul ...

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 ...

Shipping containers have become trendy statement homes, sustainable solutions to a need for housing, and durable replacements for traditional homes at risk from climate change. Myriad variables go ...

Could America's record balance of payments deficit with China be the solution to low cost housing? Might it even be an unprecedented opportunity to be Green? If that sounds like two really stupid ...

BASTROP, Texas — Ellen and Gary Bearicks live in Sugarland, but they are frequently at their property in Bastrop, where they stay in their two shipping containers. “Isn't that a weird idea?” Ellen ...

Global supply chain disruptions have sent the cost of constructing a shipping container home through the roof, but that isn’t deterring its biggest supporters from promoting the building type. Homes ...

Developer Abdul Arif has changed his plans for development in the SoCe neighborhood. He now wants to build shipping container housing there, despite some neighbors’ objections. Jaime Green File photo ...