Turning Lemons Into Lemonade

Today in America we take in about 3-5 million more shipping containers then we ship out. These shipping containers sit in container yards, stacked as much as 12 high. Sometimes just across the street from residential areas. There are certain places where the sun sets an hour earlier because of these container structures. So what do we do with these?

Some engineers have come up with an idea to make these containers into homes and city centers at reduced costs. Yesterday I was watching Lou Dobbs when he did a segment on one of these engineers, Peter DeMaria. I did a quick google and found another, Adam Kalkin. Although I suspect that his Jesus smokes and pocket pussyface will turn away some people.
























































While this may never turn into the next housing phase, it might be something we could use in Third World countries. Obviously they don't need to be as extravagant as the pictures above, but couldn't we use these in Africa or Asia where housing is in demand? We could actually make this an export, or turn lemons into lemonade.