Crates contain hope for housing
Carleton grads say plan to convert cargo containers into homes can do good – and be good business
“In a lot of emerging economies there are shipping containers wasting away because it’s found to be cost-prohibitive to send these containers back to where they were originally shipped from.”
— BINAYAK KANUNGO, CO-FOUNDER OF SECOND CHANCE HOMES
BY ADAM FEIBEL adam@obj.ca
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An early-stage Ottawa startup has high hopes of “making a difference while making a profit” by building an international social housing enterprise from the ground up, using not much more than some old cargo containers.
Magdalena Plesa and Binayak...
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