In local news: A grant funded organization in my county has just recieved $1.6m in stimulus funds. The money will be used to purchase a warehouse and then used to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless.

The employees doing the container conversions will be local homeless people.

When I inquired of the executive director where they intended to locate the containers once they were put in use, she replied that they hadn't thought that far ahead yet.

I suspect that Homeless Container Parks are in our future

^ Don't worry if Pott's predictions are correct those with homes will be relocated. There will be jobs and land for everyone.

Just get them settled in and ship the containers back to China.

I wonder if those are the same ones that have been electrocuting our troops?

stack the on a container ship and they get a free cruise, put the on a train and they get to see the country, put them on a truck and they get a truckstop tour of america. Hey how do I sign up for one of those?

The answer is trains, baby. Because the rail services have been struggling, there is a need to fill the containers with something since manufacturing has been down, the gov't is going to get some people back to work and put others in housing by loading up the containers, and simply running them around the country on rails.

The answer is trains, baby. Because the rail services have been struggling, there is a need to fill the containers with something since manufacturing has been down, the gov't is going to get some people back to work and put others in housing by loading up the containers, and simply running them around the country on rails.

*sigh* maybe I can get some federal funds to have my ISP restore my DSL back to the original state, when it worked just fine, before they "improved" it.

train, truck, shipping container--all sound like good ideas. At least that would never be in one place long enough to permanently reduce property values.

I guess my original question (where are they gonna put these things?) goes unanswered...there is no zone to my knowledge that allows the placement of these things.

Now, they could put them on wheels and call them mobilhomes, but then they'd have to go in a park that is developed to the same level that any other mobile park is, and that would entail 'space rent'. But if you have no job/income you got no money for rent, which is why you are homeless in the first place.

That's why I found it interesting when the Exec. Director told me she didn't know where they would place the containers--she kept going back to the fact that they would be putting the homeless to work making the conversions.

Shipping containers are becoming quite the ****, look into it, some of them look great.

Actually they are all the rage amongst modern architects. I actually know a well renowned designer of such things who is working on beautiful homes using shipping container.

(this isn't his stuff, just a representation of the type of construction that can be done with said containers)

http://designcrave.com/2009-06-22/10-brilliant-boxy-and-sustainable-shipping-container-homes/ 

Coming to a lot right next to your house soon Chief.

^oh, great--with my luck, they will be occupied by Palefaces, and there will be a rat pack of gaddam rowdy, undisciplined little Palefaces running around, too.

There goes the neighborhood

^LOL.

This could be kind of cool. You could stack them up, cut holes in the floor/ceilings, put ladders/stairs in them, and you'd have a huge habitrail system for the homeless. Kind of like ancient days where caves/homes were cut into the mountainsides. 🙂

Wow! Got to get me one of those!

Gotta ask: sanitation?

In the corner, shovel it out when it spreads to the kitchen

I need to build a work shop soon... have some cool tools now... these containers might be big enough but it seems like they would get hotter than hell in the summer....

#13 Well, then, get yourself declared a tribe, get some BIA money, partner up with a casino corp. in LV, and build your own casino near the or-ca border. Hell, you can even take a page from Frank and his boys and call it the Or-ca Casino.

Man...I understand being pissed off about losing land, but the palefaces invented a way for you to get some money and revenge. You just can't wait for them to build the casino for you, too.

RE #18

They do get hotter than hell in the summer.