The Arizona Department of Housing paid Steel and Spark $1.25 million to build three homes, each with a bedroom and bath and two units without. Hobbs said housing affordability is a top concern not just for renters, “but also those in our business community who need a workforce to hire as the cost of living here in Arizona threatens to hold back retaining or attracting the talent that they need.”
“The times have found us, meaning everyone that’s in office right now and everyone that is on the private side trying to do something about sustainability need to come together,” he said. He says city and state leaders need to get on board.
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It takes about a month to build, deliver and install a Sparkbox and costs about $200,000. Stark’s company has built shipping container apartments downtown and Tempe and hw sees a market for shipping container homes in backyards - for people to offer as rental units and for adults who want or need to be close to family or friends while living independently. The one-bedroom, one-bath container home includes a kitchenette. There’s a bed and seating area and a bathroom with a toilet that incinerates waste. Each 400-square-foot unit includes a kitchenette with built-in cabinets, a full-size refrigerator, microwave and hot plate. It doesn’t feel like you’re walking into a steel container. The units, called Sparkboxes, are powered by the sun during the day and lithium batteries at night. “We’ve developed a plan to offer these surplus containers to local jurisdictions and nonprofits to help expand our inventory of affordable housing and shelter,” she said during an event to highlight alternative housing in Phoenix last week.īrian Stark, co-founder of Steel and Spark, described the repurposed shipping containers on public display, "These are completely off grid, there’s no power hooked up to any of these containers." They had been double-stacked to fill gaps along the border in Yuma and Cochise counties. In late December, after the Biden administration filed a lawsuit, Ducey agreed to remove the metal containers. Doug Ducey to keep people out of Arizona could soon be used to house people. About 2,000 shipping containers used by former Gov.
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