Shipping containers may seem like a cheap path to a durable modern home, but costs add up when turning a bare metal box into a functional furnished house.

PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) — Affordable housing is hard to find, but building it from scratch is proving to be just as hard. One business in Palm City, "Containing Luxury", is turning shipping containers ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A company in West Michigan is creating homes, swimming pools and everything in between, all from old used shipping containers that they source from across the Midwest. Newco ...

We love the many intriguing space-saving features in this high-end tiny home. When it comes to small homes, shipping container housing seems like the option with the greatest potential to be ...

While the tiny home movement started to gain ground in the early aughts, it’s only over the past couple of years that’s become a widespread phenomenon for a variety of reasons. Container homes ...

McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A new opportunity has come along for North Texans struggling to pay their rents and mortgages. The City of McKinney is about to break ground on a large neighborhood of ...

BOISE, Idaho — The housing crisis in the Treasure Valley doesn't seem to be letting up, forcing some people to find another place to live or downsize entirely. The solutions seem slim to none, but the ...

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When Arnold Stalk, an architect working with homeless housing, was on a cruise in the 1980s, he spotted dozens of disused shipping containers at the ports he passed — and he had an idea. Stalk, who ...

It measures only 8 feet by 8 feet. But to Stephen Smith, the tiny red house in North Hollywood is the place he calls home. Until early last month, Smith had been living out of his car in locations ...