Living in a Box

The charity Brighton Housing Trust has started constructing a new scheme to create 36 homes for homeless people using shipping containers. The scheme has been inspired by a Dutch concept, where containers have been used in a number of sites. The largest site in Amsterdam is constructed from 1000 containers.

Each resident will have a box, with its own front door, kitchen and bathroom. The boxes provide 26 square metres of floor space.

Its clearly better than living in cardboard box - cue the eighties classic.

Read more in the Guardian blog

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