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L.A.’s New Project Housing Homeless In Shipping Containers Costs $600k Per Home

Jeffrey Cawood
L.A.’s New Project Housing Homeless In Shipping Containers Costs $600k Per Home
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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti and other city leaders recently broke ground on a permanent supportive housing complex that will use stacked shipping containers to house formerly homeless people.

The containers will be arranged into towers, then connected by walkways to create a single, unified building topped with rooftop terraces and gardens. They have been specifically manufactured as modular, prefabricated homes because building codes prevent the developer from using recycled containers.

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