There's a u.s. company that reuses abandoned shipping containers , to build cheap homes for Mexican families.a family house built this way should cost $8000.<p><a href="http://renaissanceronin.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/drumroll-please-welcome-the-8000-shipping-container-home/" rel="nofollow">http://renaissanceronin.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/drumroll-pl...</a><p>So it would be probably much more effective to reuse container to build homes for the poor , than to fold them.