The rent is certainly not cheap for a prefab.
Posted on 06/03/2021 8:45:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Utah is full of empty land, especially to the West of Salt Lake in Tooele County.
High rise boxes for Mexican illegal aliens - who were never there just a few decades ago - are totally unnecessary, and that part of SLC is already ugly.
Reminds me of the insanity of the Moscow concrete block buildings sitting next to a sea of empty land stretching for thousands of miles. Communists always build ant hills.
I give them six weeks before they’re covered in graffiti, and become a hub for drug sales. The looney leftist “leaders’ of Salt Lake City love stuff like this for the poor, oppressed, underserved minorities, and third-world women and children. My guess is no one living here will have any income other than some kind of welfare. Even after they’re living here they’ll still be showing up at the homeless shelters and soup kitchens for free food.
OTOH, I couldn’t afford to live there—the rent’s too high. Good thing my house is paid for or I’d be on the street.
This is just another half-baked leftist solution to an incorrectly defined problem and it creates more problems than it solves. Specifically, it does not recognize or reward successful people. Then it puts less successful people in a bind. Or at least I assume it would. What happens when one of the tenants begins to make more than the arbitrary income level? Does he have to move? Or will he find a way to make less money? Pure stupidity.
Upscale, the are double wides! Lol
“Are there an excess of unused, decommissioned shipping containers ‘clogging up or landfills’ that we have to find alternative uses and recycle?”
Actually saw that stat yesterday. Of every 100 containers shipped to the United States, only forty return. That’s because the US buys more foreign goods than foreigners buy from the US. An aerial shot showed empty containers at the SF port stacked very high and covering a lot of space.
And, incidentally, the reason for that is our trading partners are aging out. They are huge producers of goods, but do not have the population in the “buy’s stuff” category, between 20 and 40, to consume what they make...or buy our products. This is one reason Trump renegotiated all the trade deals. The deals were one-sided in favor of anyone not an American.
**and what do they
Smell Like?
Red Snapper,
Halibut?**
Or maybe generic round up weed killer?
“
And have a very good AC unit”
‘Best to place them on the shaded side...
The military has been using shipping containers like that in Afghanistan and Iraq. They’re cheap, they’re durable, they’re available.
You’re looking at the Democrat-Socialist Party of America housing of the future. Confiscate all private homes and bring the people into controlled, high population density areas where they can be safely “protected” and the suburbs returned to being forests, wind mill farms and solar farms.
Lightning-proof, like mobile homes...
Six high
Whew
The rent is certainly not cheap for a prefab.
Grounding not an issue... ;)
In finding there’s a severe shortage of everything!
What percentage are lost overboard?
Put bathrooms on the sunny side...
:)
Exactly what I was going to say. There must be a cheaper way than this to build terrible, uncomfortable housing.
New Sneakers?
;)
That’s the problem. I’d take one for a hundred. It might make a nice shed or garage for the zero turn mower and side-by-side.
Two grand is way too much, by an order of magnitude.
BTW, they are only strong, vertically, at the corners. It’s far cheaper to build a sheet metal building the same size.
Well, maybe not at TODAY’s lumber prices... :)
Because we have a huge surplus of shipping containers.
It seems to me it would be cheaper and easier to make pre-fab corrugated sheets of steel and build them in a modular configurations.
Have you seen the price of steel and other traditional building materials?
Are there an excess of unused, decommissioned shipping containers 'clogging up or landfills' that we have to find alternative uses and recycle?
Yes, there are. They are not in landfills, but at ports and railyards. There are tons of them and many can't be reused again because they're not suitable for the product that they will hold.
What is the rust-free life-span of a shipping container used as housing?
That's irrelevant. You can keep a shipping container rust-free with products already available on the market.
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