Container City idea for mfg alternative

Windsor business people and residents looking for work and politicians looking for a way to assist people to find work and alleviate poverty would find the following idea to be an opportunity worth investigating.
With the number of factories and plants closing, with the desire to find alternative manufacturing jobs, with a need to use resources wisely, this idea has many positive aspects to it.
Ever hear of “Container City”, an urban design idea that uses old shipping containers to build affordable housing. They are purchased for about $2400 used (and there are enough of them in the world to circle the equator twice), they are modified, insulated, and installed all for around $50,000, and then rented out for $80-$140 per month to those in need of affordable housing.
“Thinking outside of the box” has never been so gleefully dependant on these boxes, these wonderfully stackable, workable, pre-fab /recycled abundant and affordable containers that can solve the two issues of joblessness and homelessness all in one glorious vision.
Acknowledgements go to Judy Greenwood-Speers, former President of the Green Party of Ontario, for her presentation of this idea to Kitchener-Waterloo Council. She insists that this idea would work best if it were something that the municipal government supported by actually purchasing them (they get their investment back by renting out the units and could always sell them at a later time if needed).

Advantages: low investment costs (use existing factories), labour required is not overly specialized (seems easy enough to learn to cut window and doors into these containers and do some insulation, carpentry, plumbing, etc inside), empty factories could be converted and re-tooled as needed, the market for the finished products are everywhere (and anywhere where there is a need for affordable housing).
Needed: the will and cooperation of governments to incorporate “container housing” as part of their “Poverty Reduction Plan” and “Keeping Manufacturing Jobs in Ontario Plan”.
Supporting documentation is available, but in the meantime, google Container City and / or take a look at http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm or see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAESd-C_mNM )

Good luck, Windsor. Forget about becoming the “Hallowe’en Capital” and instead focus on becoming the “Container City Manufacturing Capital” of Canada.
Liz C. , Richmond Hill