This takes a little outside-and-inside-the-box thinking. What looks like and lives like a house is actually a shipping container. "I call it my bunker," says Rosalynn Kearney of her container home. Used to import almost everything we use and wear, shipping containers are now a new concept in affordable housing. The containers are claimed to be hurricane-proof, fire-resistant. Increasingly too expensive to ship back overseas empty, these steel boxes -- which can be as large as 20-by-48-feet -- are stacked high, sitting in ports around the country. There are as many as 300,000 containers, by some estimates. And they're cheap -- ranging from $500 to $2,000 for an unused container. Pictures of this form of creative housing, along with more details, are here.
