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Uploaded by on May 20, 2008

New York approves shipping container usage for modular home construction. Home sweet homes is now stronger than stick built and ready for any storm. Go green.

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  • I am fighting the local shire to build one of these. They said straight up NO. We are only allowed to have them on a rural block as a temp storage compartment. Hopefully I will be the first in the area to build one. Lots of architects involved.

  • container home? i wouldnt want one

  • Nice idea but not very well executed. Take inspiration from someone like Samuel Mockbee for ideas of external finishes/features and you could reduce costs further and make them look less like a cheap chalet/caravan. Embrace the fact it's a shipping container rather than hide it behind twee finishes!

  • With MERS and the Federal Home Loan Banks, the National Housing Conference produced a new video designed for affordable housing advocates and practitioners. It’s called “Housing’s New Era” and free presentation-quality DVD copies are available upon request. NHC hopes that folks will use it at the local level to convey a simple, positive message around affordable housing. Take a look by entering "Housing's New Era" in YouTube's search engine. And email tokeefe@nhc.org to order a free copy.

  • Very cool indeed.

  • Around $85.00 a square foot??? Local construction is up to $140/ft now in Upstate New York. We also have a great cabin/camp line that will go anywhere, including Alaska but look more like 'home sweet home'

  • To make one is not cheap!

  • Exactly . no need for fema trailer. We've used these in alaska for living quarters for decades. Suddenly its 'green sheik' .. i just laugh=D.  this will no doubt bring the price of otherwise Free containers up to 1000's. A few months ago Craiglist was loaded with free boxes. No more

  • love it. as the economy slows there will be alot of these to be had for construction and cheaper places to live. good for tornado country

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