Posted on 10/09/2013 10:11:51 AM PDT by Kartographer
They are more commonly seen being transported on ships and at ports around the world. But with the addition of flatscreen TVs, en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, these shipping containers are now being billed as a solution to London’s housing crisis.
The containers come from China and are transformed into studio apartments in Britain which can be stacked on top of each other - and are available to rent for only £75 a week.
The scheme looks set to take off after the council granted planning permission to the Forest Young Man's Christian Association (YMCA) to establish two sites in Waltham Forest, north-east London.
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Nope, they are again for sale...the ones not tested for formaldehyde and not recommended for long term living. So go camping once a year, it won’t hurt ya!
http://www.governmentauctions.org/fematrailers.asp#.UlW6PBCJNa0
http://www.fematrailersforsale.org/
When we visited the troops in Bosnia back it the late 90s, these were the majority of the base housing.
Perhaps, but they are hardly the "fortresses" I was responding to.
Thanks for all your prepper posts. They are always informative and thought-provoking for those of us who prefer not to just take what comes.
You forgot the mosques.
It's what we had for quarters when I was in Afghanistan. 12 stacked on 12. 10 on each level were used to make five double-wide sets of quarters, each housing six and the other two on each level were used for bathrooms and showers.
“Relatively bulletproof...”
It would be nice to think so, but how do you define ‘bulletproof’? ... 22LR, 9mm? When is it not ‘bulletproof’? I doubt it would stop a .45 acp or a 7.62x39...a .223 maybe...
I shipped all my worldly goods to Northern Ireland in a 40 footer in 1979...Guess if I had shipped 6 or 7 of them I could have had a home...(I bought a 2000 sq ft home there, that I lived in for 3 years)...the 7 containers would have cost me somewhat less, and I could have been the talk of the town... :)
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