Container Living

I was reading December's issue of Vanity Fair, which by the way, is not trashy magazine, and was totally fascinated by the idea of nomadic architecture achieved by making a home out of steel cargo shipping crates. Yes, those we see stacked at the PSA in Singapore.

This could just be one of the answers to today ST's Saturday Special Report on "Hotel Homeless".

I am appalled at the cost of living in Britain and wonder why isn't the government doing something to provide cheap housing for its people? I mean, would you rather have people sleeping in parks and underground walkways?

Well, if they can't build proper houses to cope with the rising homeless people, then have such temporary shipping crates rented out to these people at very low costs, because after all, it's only a small living and sleeping space they need. It's like a hostel, where they have common bathroom and common pantry/kitchen and each person. Depending on how much they can afford for rent, can have one compartment to themselves, or just a bed. I'm sure there's plenty of space in Britain to place such massive shipping crates.

Then in the meantime, the government can think of building blocks of hostels for these homeless people, rent them out at low costs, and for those who are unemployed, they can be responsible to upkeep their own hostels like wash the toilets, sweep the corridors and so on.

But of course, it's always easier said than done.