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GM Assembly Plant Teaming Up With Detroit Nonprofit To Build Shipping Container Homestead
General Motors is teaming with a Detroit urban farming nonprofit to build what the automaker says is the city’s first occupied shipping container homestead.
In a news release Wednesday, GM says the container home will be constructed of 85 percent scrap materials donated by the company and built in part by employee volunteers.
When completed this spring, the 40-foot-long home will feature 320 square feet of living space with two bedrooms, a bathroom and kitchen. It’ll be built on the grounds of GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant.
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative says the dwelling will be used to show how repurposed materials can be used to benefit urban agriculture.
A university student caretaker will live in the home and manage a farm while using the land for agricultural research activities.
AND WHO WILL LIVE IN THESE OBAMAVILLES?
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Hamtramck, America's First Majority-muslim City Council, Witnesses The New Normal, Muslim Triumphalism
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New York Times Recommends Fixing Detroit By Importing Syrians To Take It Over
Because Syrians have done such an incredible job with their country ... Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum. Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950. The city is estimated to have more than...
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Drudge: Dow Has Just Closed At Record High?
Then things are really great!!!!NYTNew York City’s share of poor people appears to have plateaued since the recession, at 21.4 percent, with more people working in 2012 than the year before, but at lower wages, according to a new city study. Contributing...
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Dearbornistan: "thugs" Threaten To Burn Down Couple's Home For Flying American And Israeli Flag
The Prophet Mohammed Approves This Behavior From Click on Detroit: Metro Detroit is known as being a big melting pot, a place where people of all cultures can live together. But one couple says they are facing ethnic intimidation all because of a flag...
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25 Frightening Facts About Detroit
1) At this point, the city of Detroit owes money to more than 100,000 creditors.2) Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. That breaks down to more than $25,000 per resident.3) Back in 1960,...
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