AP Photo/Carlos Osorio). In a Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 photo, General Motors millwrights Mike Edwards, rear, and Chris Mathis work on drywall panels inside a container home being remodeled inside the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit.
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Come spring, the house-in-progress will be delivered to Detroit's North End neighborhood and secured on a foundation where a blighted home once stood. After finishing touches and final inspections, the 40-foot-long former container will feature 320 square feet of living space with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen, and will serve as home base for a university-student caretakers of a neighborhood farm and agricultural research activities.
One shipping container home won't turn around Detroit's housing woes. The city emerging from bankruptcy has roughly 40,000 vacant homes waiting to be demolished. But it's a start and, organizers hope, a model to lure and keep residents as Detroit removes blight and recovers from bankruptcy.
Shipping containers converted into living or working spaces are common in some other cities. For instance, in Salt Lake City's rundown warehouse district, a nonprofit group last year converted them into "micro-retail" spaces. A Seattle-based company designs and builds houses out of reclaimed containers.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27755680/shipping-container-home-readying-for-detroit-debut
Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut
By JEFF KAROUB
Associated Press
January 3, 2014
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