Michigan Urban Farming Initiative intern to live in city’s first shipping container house
A lucky intern at the nonprofit Michigan Urban Farming Initiative will become the first person to inhabit a house made from a shipping container, reports the Detroit News.
The container is currently being converted into occupiable housing in the parking lot of General Motor’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant. Once completed, it will be moved to Michigan Urban Farming Initiative’s headquarters on Brush Street in New Center.
The nonprofit purchased the container for $3,000, but estimates that it will cost between $20,000 and $25,000 to convert it into a home. According the News, “Local GM workers will volunteer to convert the container into a home and 85 percent of the materials will be scrap from local GM plants.”
Read more in the Detroit News.
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