Shipping Containers Provide Experimental Housing

Housing prices around the San Francisco Bay area are out of reach for many people, so some young entrepreneurs, artists and tech industry workers are creating their own houses using converted shipping containers.  The effort requires ingenuity and dealing with restrictive local laws. Artist Heather Stewart is one of 20 people who live and work in this small community in shipping containers, or other types of tiny houses.  Most are standard containers six meters long. She is...

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