Silicon Valley City Wants to Ease Housing Crisis with $150k Cargo Containers

I don’t want to be cynical and support modular housing, but is there a realistic path out of housing insecurity in the Bay Area? Some, such as the former alcoholic quoted above, may be able to find a high-paying job if they have the right skills. But for the many people without this luxury, won’t they find minimum wage jobs and still be housing insecure? Are you supposed to graduate from a shipping container to living in a car?

I don’t see how these container homes help in the long-run when even even someone on a $60,000 income is possibly housing-insecure. The only long-term solution is to build massive amounts of new housing.

They need to make a video that shows what goes into the modifications of a $6k to $9k container to raise the price to $150k. Plenty of DIY'ers on Youtube modify these things into mini homes for significantly less. Cities have better purchasing power than DIY'ers.