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Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

A couple who left the US to escape rising costs say they’ve saved $430,000 by building a shipping container home in Mexico. Miriam and Eric Guiterrez bought land in Mexicali for $8,000 and have spent ...

A young couple decided to leave the U.S. and "escape" to Mexico, citing rising costs, and it seems to have worked out pretty well for them. They claim to have saved $430k by building a $35k home from ...