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Boise Outfit Turns Shipping Containers Into Affordable Homes

DARIN OSWALD / IDAHO STATESMAN
Scott Flynn, founder and CEO of IndieDwell, next to a shipping container home

IndieDwell is repurposing shipping containers into habitable homesfor a fraction of the price of a traditional brick-and-mortar home and they leave a substantially smaller environmental footprint. Could shipping containers help solve the pending housing crunch facing the Treasure Valley?

IndieDwell founders Scott Flynn and Peter Gombert join Gemma Gaudette to talk about out-of-the-box solutions for affordable housing.

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