Now, his idea might morph into shipping-container shelters that would house Winnipeg’s homeless, particularly during cold snaps that stretch the capacities of the city’s existing shelters.

An innovative shelter space made out of converted shipping containers in Victoria, B.C. is being heralded as a success by the community.

The project uses an old 40-foot shipping container to provide up to 16 homeless people with a temporary roof over their heads on any given winter night. “I see a lot of homeless people,” Reid says, ...

The mobile shelter was created out of a used 40-ft. shipping container and is divided into eight heated rooms large enough to accommodate a homeless person and their cart or two homeless people. The ...

The shelters are coated in insulation and surrounded by a fence outside 97 Victoria St. N. where Mancini said the kitchen offers 300-500 of the area's homeless a place to get a meal every day.

A proposal for Saint John council to ask for 24/7 supervision from the provincial government for an uptown shipping container shelter site failed after a Tuesday night council vote. Coun.

The Department of Health and Families has spent $3.3 million on shipping containers which will be used as domestic violence shelters and training centres in remote communities.