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 ...

SG Blocks CEO & Chairman Paul Galvin talks about how using shipping containers as a primary building material can accelerate much-needed affordable housing construction. Constantly rising construction ...

Could America's record balance of payments deficit with China be the solution to low cost housing? Might it even be an unprecedented opportunity to be Green? If that sounds like two really stupid ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – Chances are you may have seen a stack of shipping containers on a train or on a cargo ship, but how about next door? An Evansville organization is tackling the affordable ...

In a continued effort to address homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona, the city has turned to shipping containers. Earlier this year, the City of Phoenix opened the Phoenix Navigation Center, or what ...

SG Blocks Inc., a Brooklyn-based designer and fabricator innovator of container-based structures, has entered into a strategic partnership with financial services and housing market executives David ...

Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Mahoning County Commissioner Carol Rimedio-Righetti, center, speaks about the Veteran’s Haven Container Project with Commissioners Anthony Traficanti, left, and David ...

Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness is endorsing container homes as a means of providing cost effective and safe housing ...

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The Container Store may be the next home goods chain to file for bankruptcy as a weak housing market and inflated prices hurt sales, according to a report. The Coppell, Texas-based chain enjoyed a ...

NEW YORK — The Container Store has filed for bankruptcy protection as the storage and organizational goods retailer with roots dating back to 1978 grapples with mounting losses and cash flow shortages ...