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The city of Charleston, SC wants to build low-income homes from old shipping containers! 
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I wouldn't. But people also don't live in trailer parks here in Germany, so that might be why I wouldn't consider it. -
I guess there is one advantage - in those Atlantic Hurricanes, your house will be completely safe!
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I assume they mean these kind of shipping containers:
if so.. i mean they look about the same size as a trailer home... at first i imagined people living in shipping containers you see them loading into the belly of a 767 or something
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The article said they would be placing several containers together and stacking them.
One container would be pretty small, but with some creativity several containers together wouldn't be too bad. Forget about high ceilings though!
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This link may be of interest to you. They are 8 feet highOriginally posted by Van HoolioIt's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.
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Good containers are well isolated and very sturdy. Some people in France near Montpellier have come to the point of using them as cheap but quality homes. The most surface hungry use 5 or 6 boxes and more which have been paired and once worked inside offer living acceptable living-quarters. Others use them as beach side shops. The only big works is the link to a sewage and electricity + airconditioning. Otherwise, structural durability, isolation and sound proofing are excellent.
Personally, I think of this possibility more than a standard mobile home.
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