The 18 shipping containers stacked on a downtown Jacksonville lot have been lifted, loaded, unloaded, packed and unpacked on journeys from one port to the next, so it’s fitting that half the residences being built out of the containers will be used for people on the move in Airbnb rentals. That’s […]
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Shipping containers in Los Angeles becoming homes for the homeless | News Headlines
(CNN) — Jonelle Kilgore tapped away at his online homework with Jasmine the puppy on his lap in their South Los Angeles home. The 12-year-old boy and his dog sat on a couch in not just any home, but one made from four recycled shipping containers. “I like it, I […]
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In Los Angeles, shipping containers becoming homes for the homeless
“I like it, I liked moving in here,” Jonelle told CNN on a recent September day. “It’s a home for us.” Two years ago Jonelle, his father John and four siblings received the keys to their four-bedroom container apartment and it seems like a glimmer of hope in the quest […]