Reply #5: Thanks for that, pinto.

[Wordie]

There are some great links in that thread, which I plan to explore. I actually sent the following link to the mayor of my city a couple of years ago, as an idea for housing the homeless. I never heard back, though. :(

http://www.escapeartist.com/OREQ4/Nomadic_Housing2000.html
It's got some practical tips, and also has more of an economy approach, as opposed to some of the things I've seen lately.

And I just found this one, which looks amazing:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/
It's the Shipping-Container-Architecture Information Repository, and its got tons of links, including projects, academic, research, forums, etc., etc. It looks like an interesting site.