In the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, a new affordable multifamily housing project using shipping containers resulted in 24 micro-units for formerly unhoused residents, according to Fast Company. ...

A group of deported migrants is living in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a country in East Africa, where they are guarded around the clock by a small team of U.S.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new type of housing is coming soon to a college campus in North Little Rock. The North Little Rock City Council voted Monday to allow Shorter College to bring in shipping ...

A new report has found that thousands of children are growing up in shipping containers and office blocks converted into “dangerous” homes. The Bleak Houses report by the Children's Commissioner for ...

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You might not expect to see farm-fresh lettuce during winter in Alaska, but it may soon become a familiar sight. Alaska Public Media reported on the pioneering indoor farmers growing produce ...

Camp Lemonnier uses stacks and rows of "Containerized Living Units," or CLUs, which the military likens to shipping containers, to house thousands of personnel at the U.S. base in Djibouti. A group of ...