Shipping container housing being rolled out across Canada – Toronto Star
Three-storey development in Vancouver shows how ‘cargotecture’ can help tackle shortage of affordable housing.
VANCOUVER—They were once rusting hulks relegated to junkyards.
Now shipping containers are being repurposed into stylish homes that developers plan to roll out in housing-crunched communities across Canada.
A three-storey development in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood uses just 12 of the millions of containers decommissioned after a life on the sea of five to 10 years.
What started as a pilot project on the Downtown Eastside is expanding in the city — and the same model is set to be stacked up in aboriginal communities in British Columbia, Alberta and Nunavut.
