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. ...

When natural disasters devastate communities, traditional emergency response methods often struggle with logistical challenges and time constraints. Shipping containers are revolutionizing disaster ...

Newark is among a growing number of cities turning to an unconventional solution for the housing shortage — shipping containers. Normally used to transport goods and merchandise on massive cargo ships ...

It’s big, blue and built to last. That’s just a few words that describe The Blue Pearl, a house built with shipping ...

Cora Coleman grew up scratching out designs on graph paper and flipping through pages of map books. She is the third generation in her family working in real estate in Houston. She is also a ...

At a typical home construction site, two-by-four beams build the skeleton of a home. Insulation and drywall complete the inner walls. A roof is placed on top; in Florida it’s usually made of shingles, ...

In Los Angeles, the architecture firm KTGY is repurposing shipping containers to build a transitional apartment complex for the homeless. KTGY A decade after the global economic collapse, urban ...

Shipping containers, once primarily used for transporting goods, are now emerging as an innovative housing trend in metro Detroit. A new development of single-family container homes on Detroit's east ...

An Old Town startup that makes high-tech shipping containers broke ground last week on a $3.9 million, 15,000-square-foot expansion that could create as many as 80 jobs. Global Secure Shipping said ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When Carlos-Ameen Jureidini-Cully started selling refurbished sunglasses in 2008, he knew he couldn’t swing the high rent or multi-year ...