Homeless Children Put Up In Shipping Containers

Thousands of homeless children are growing up in cheaply converted shipping containers and cramped rooms in former office blocks, putting their health and wellbeing at serious risk, according to the children’s commissioner for England. Anne Longfield said it was scandal that at least 210,000 young people in homeless families in England were put up by councils in temporary housing and bed and breakfasts or forced to “sofa-surf” with friends, often for long periods. Such accommodation could be unsafe, disruptive and overcrowded, with no room for children to play or do homework. Read more on the Guardian website.

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UK’s Biggest Shipping Container Village Opens Up For Homeless People

The UK’s largest temporary housing development for homeless people will open up in west London. Made up of refurbished shipping containers, the bold scheme will give 290 people registered as homeless with Ealing Council a roof over the heads just in time for Christmas. Set up on derelict land next to an estate in Acton, the container village is the most ambitious effort yet to utilize the oblong, mobile units to help address the housing crisis. Some communal spaces, laundry facilities and refuse storage space will sit alongside the fully furnished the mobile apartments. Read more on the Big Issue website.

Shipping Container Homes an 'Overwhelming Success'

Homeless people who moved into a collection of converted shipping containers in Brighton have deemed the project an overwhelming success. An independent report into the satisfaction of residents staying at the Richardson's Yard site found 94% of people felt the accommodation was an improvement on where they lived before. But some tenants did have complaints about rent levels and heating costs. The site, run by the Brighton Housing Trust (BHT), opened six months ago. The charity was given planning permission to keep 36 units at the former scrap metal yard for five years.

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Homeless to Live In Containers For Up To Five Years

Homeless people will be able to move into shipping containers in a former scrap metal yard in a bid to tackle a city's housing shortage. The converted containers will provide temporary homes for a period of five years for 36 men and women with a history of homelessness. Six containers are due to arrive in the New England Quarter of Brighton, East Sussex, with a further 30 arriving in the next few days. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.

Homeless to Be Contained

A plan to house Brighton's homeless in reconditioned shipping containers has been given the green light.  Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) has secured planning permission to install 36 units on the site of a former scrapyard. The unique homes will provide temporary accommodation for the city's homeless. BHT believes that up to a 100 people sleep rough on Brighton's streets every night.  Officers from Brighton and Hove's Planning Committee who recommended approval said that the containers were an “imaginative and appropriate way to meet a very real need for affordable accommodation".  Read more on 24dash.

Homeless to Be Housed In Shipping Containers

Dozens of homeless people in Brighton are to be offered accommodation in converted shipping containers to help ease the city's acute housing need. The 36 temporary studio homes, linked by walkways, are to be installed on land currently used as a scrap metal yard. Brighton Housing Trust will allocate the containers to men and women with a local connection to the city.  The scheme is intended as a move on from supported housing. They will be in three and five storey blocks, with balconies and external stairs to the upper levels.  Planning permission has been granted for five years, with the contaminated land not considered suitable for permanent housing.  Read more on the BBC website.

Charity to Offer Shipping Container Homes

A charity is planning to use shipping containers to house homeless young people in east London to allow them to live independently as they save for their own home.  Forest YMCA has identified sites in Leyton and Waltham Forest for the containers and has put in a planning application to Waltham Forest Council.  It plans to rent out the temporary homes, which cost up to £20,000 each, at a rate of 30 per cent of the minimum wage – about £75 a week.  The mYPad homes, as the charity calls them, will have a bed, small kitchen, toilet and shower and television.  Read more on the Forest YMCA website.

Landlord Acquires Shipping Containers for Housing

A housing association on the south coast is on the verge of submitting a planning application to turn shipping containers into temporary accommodation for 36 people.  Brighton Housing Trust has already sourced the containers and land to put them on and wants to apply for planning permission before Christmas for the accommodation to be available in late spring next year.  Read more on Inside Housing.