So you've all driven through Newark on the Turnpike or 78. You've all looked out your locked car windows at the piles of trash, smoke stacks, car lots, power plants, Bon Jovi's, fat sandwiches, and anything else that apparently give the rest of the country the only picture of the great state of New Jersey. inside this dirty exisits the building blocks of a promising and innovative way of building buildings.
As told by Pops, who somehow knows a lot about a lot, there is a great surplus of shipping containers in Jersey straight up chilling. A great amount of products that come into the NY/NJ ports are carried in standard shipping containers. The shipping crates are not shipped back to Asia because it's cheaper to just make new ones.
The title of this post is from a NY Times article about how some dudes want to build an apartment omplex in Harrison, NJ out of the surplus of containers.
This theory has been around for a while, not just for apartment complexes, but for shelters for third world countries. Think about it. You're in a third world country picking rice or oranges or making some Air Jordans in a factory all day. You get out after a 12-hour day and get home to your house made out of plastic siding, cardboard, and anything else you can gather. And your house sits within a lovely neighborhood of other plastic siding houses. You're so money. Oh wait, no you're not, you're far from it. You're not asking for much, obviously gwtting by with nothing already. You just a want roof over your head, a locked door you can hide behind, and maybe some electricity and a hot shower every so often. You just need a shipping crate from Newark.
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