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September 29, 2014

They're Now Building... Shipping-Container Apartments

The shipping containers are specced out with interior walls and plumbing and such and then they're just stacked on top of each other to form an apartment complex.

I'm in love. RT @DCist: Photos: Inside D.C.'s first shipping container apartments. http://t.co/wthIMEHtSk pic.twitter.com/3gsSt3QOHo
— Dina Fraioli (@DinaFraioli) September 29, 2014

In the sci-fi novel Ready Player One, the very poor protagonist lived in a place called "The Stacks," which were just mobile homes stacked one upon the other (to save space, because of overpopulation and the impossibility of poor folks owning any actual property), then laced together with ramshackle fire escapes.

I thought that was a cute attempt to hyperbolize the drama of the poor, but a dumb one. An interesting image, but there's no way that would happen.

Well, something like that is happening. Shows what I know.

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RT @DCist: Photos: Inside D.C.'s first shipping container apartments. http://t.co/wthIMEHtSk pic.twitter.com/3gsSt3QOHo — Dina Fraioli (@DinaFraioli) September 29, 2014 In the sci-fi novel Ready Player One, the very poor protagonist lived in a place called "The Stacks," which were just mobile homes stacked one upon the other (to save space, because of overpopulation and the impossibility of poor folks owning any actual property), then laced together with ramshackle fire escapes. I thought that was a cute attempt to hyperbolize the drama of the poor, but a dumb one. An interesting image, but there's no way that would happen. Well, something like that is happening. 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