Updating a story from March 20, 2014 regarding the shortage of housing in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada due to the Bakken oil field drilling just south of the border in North Dakota, the 15-unit CanStay Motel complex is made of 40′ shipping containers converted into modular bachelor units. According to cbc.ca/news, the Bryson family invested $30,000 per unit to transform each one into two rooms, with a bed, TV, window, kitchenette and private bath with a shower. Begun by University of Saskatchewan students at Saskatoon who were trying to solve a housing shortage on campus, 3twenty Modular converted and delivered all the units in under two months, as MHProNews.com has learned. Much of the company’s projects involves workforce housing for the energy exploration industry, although it did build a 180- person apartment complex in 59 days for an air force base in Alberta, and has received inquiries from First Nation peoples. ##

(Photo credit: Bonnie Allen/cbc.ca/news–shipping containers converted to CanStay Motel)