The concept of transforming eight shipping containers into residential units should have been relatively quick, but the Family Services Windsor-Essex (FSWE) project in southwestern Ontario is being ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Shipping container homes aren’t just a design trend – they’re a bold statement about sustainability, creativity, and ...

Two years after residents first moved in to its “gem in the DTES,” Atira hopes to build more homes out of shipping containers.

In this video, we take a look at 10 shipping container houses that mix innovation with sustainability. Some of them have been ...

David P. Ball reports on affordable housing for The Tyee Solutions Society. Five months after doors opened, tenants from a variety of backgrounds fill Atira Women's Resource Society's 12 ...

The City of Victoria could soon be home to an innovative new tiny home village, meant to address the region’s homelessness crisis. The pilot project, dubbed “Hey Neighbour,” is working to repurpose 30 ...

When Carlos-Ameen Jureidini-Cully started selling refurbished sunglasses in 2008, he knew he couldn't swing the high rent or multi-year commitment that a shop in New York City would entail. Instead, ...

A six-unit building made out of shipping containers will house LGBTQ youth in Windsor, Ont., in what the executive director of Family Services Windsor-Essex says is a good way to get more housing into ...