Reply #12: that this is in the "news" is troubling, to say the least . ..

[OneBlueSky]

while this link emphasizes "high-end" container residences, it also begins the acculturation process -- the propaganda -- to get Americans accustomed to thinking about living in shipping containers . . . that suggests to me that the powers that be are anticipating a time (and relatively soon) when this kind of housing (less the elegance) will actually be needed . . .

we all know about the housing bubble, and the widespread suspicion that it's about to end -- with significant declines in the equity value of private homes . . . could BushCo be planning a land grab similar to New Orleans on a nationwide scale? . . . except that the cause will be the inability of homeowners to pay the banks' demands for major cash payments because the equity no longer covers the mortgage (either first or second) rather than a hurricane . . .

good deal for them -- they get lots and lots of cheap houses that, by and large, haven't been wrecked . . .

while the former owners move into shipping containers -- because they can't afford the rents on their former residences . . .