In Detroit, a shipping container called home
GM is teaming up with a local nonprofit – Michigan Urban Farming Initiative – to provide homes made out of shipping containers. That's pretty dang cool. Excerpt: Organizers hope the container project can lure millennials who don't want their grandfather's bungalow yet also provide predominantly poor, longtime residents with a low-cost housing alternative. "Finding a place where both those communities can find common ground is beautiful," said Gersh, president and co-founder of the group that operates a farm and owns property in the North End, where blight and vacancy are common, but so are signs of residential and commercial renewal. "It's scalable, works for everyone and it's also not going to ruin the environment. It's easier to maintain and can repurpose existing materials." Read the rest here.
GM is teaming up with a local nonprofit – Michigan Urban Farming Initiative – to provide homes made out of shipping containers. That’s pretty dang cool.
Excerpt:
Organizers hope the container project can lure millennials who don’t want their grandfather’s bungalow yet also provide predominantly poor, longtime residents with a low-cost housing alternative.
“Finding a place where both those communities can find common ground is beautiful,” said Gersh, president and co-founder of the group that operates a farm and owns property in the North End, where blight and vacancy are common, but so are signs of residential and commercial renewal. “It’s scalable, works for everyone and it’s also not going to ruin the environment. It’s easier to maintain and can repurpose existing materials.”
Read the rest here.
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