General Article Housing homeless in shipping containers?

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Brighton Housing Trust will begin work with QED over the next four weeks to turn shipping containers into accommodation for homeless people. Brighton Housing Trust’s chief executive, Andy Winter said that when the idea was first presented to him he thought it was ‘either April Fool’s Day or we had lost all concept of decency’.

However, this type of work has already been used in The Netherlands by Tempohousing and after viewing these images, Mr Winter soon realised something great could be ac...

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