Shipping container homes unveiled in Vancouver

It's a great idea!
... and so easy to move back to Carbonear when the B.C. economy slows down!
Ft. McMurray needs about 10,000 of those.

I dunno. 320 square feet is not that much space to live in and be comfortable. The idea of recycling shipping containers is neat, however.

-J.

These are low cost units.

Sky's the limit in terms of configurations though...

These are low cost units.

Sky's the limit in terms of configurations though...


Exactly.

Funny how down here about ten years ago someone in LA proposed using old containers as housing for the homeless and was shouted down as being 'insensitive' and now the fool things are FASHIONABLE!!!!

That is really cool!

-J.

Kind of sexist though. Only women can get them.

The 'someone' was right, and the shouting downers are dumb.

Students have been living in them since 2006 in The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Groningen...).
So for me, it is nothing new.

Rent is 400 Euro, $600.
Better than a dorm.

This is the Wenckebachweg in Amsterdam, with 1000 of them

That's really cool. Don't think it would work here though. I think you'd lose too much room insulating it properly.

It's a trick. Solution to poverty: When all the units are full of homeless, they slam the doors and load them back on a boat.

Where do we end the boat though? Sri Lanka? "We took yours, now you have to take ours!"

Hope the Gregor and the Province don't get them mixed up with the garbage containers Vancouver's gonna be shipping to out of town so they can keep their greenest city claim.

Bart and Brenda agreeing on something; good start to the morning.

End of the freaking world if you ask me.