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September 30, 2008

Firm turns shipping containers into homes

  • The house faces two constraints: the 320-square-foot size and keeping the price around $8,000.
    • By SUE MAJOR HOLMES
    Associated Press Writer

    CORRALES, N.M. — It was a side trip through a destitute, ramshackle neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that detoured Brian McCarthy from building houses in Albuquerque to an idea to offer the very poor a chance to own a home.

    His answer lies in a humble steel shipping container, 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, 8.5 feet tall.


     
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