SEA CHANGE

Sea-Change Housing Initiative

Imagine living on your terms, in your house where you want

That is our initiative, we are aiming to bring affordable housing to some of the most needed communities in Canada with the help of Sea Containers. Part of this change is the perception in which we humans have. This perception is that we always need bigger and better. While some of us grew up in modest houses ourselves over the years we seem to believe that we need more and more. Life is expensive, life in the North even more expensive, as the cost of living, building and owning a home for many of us has become out of reach we are striving to change that, to change the way building is going in general. 

Challenge

The challenge is not in adapting the use of sea containers for housing in Nunavut, NO NO NO, the challenge is in the statement above. Perception of people, If you step back from the typical stereotypical outlook of container housing and the thought of living in a tin can that was once on a cargo ship and look at it with a bit of lateral thinking, what looks like a rusted old container is an ideal and readymade modular exoskeleton made from durable steel. No pun intended but right out of the box shipping containers offer a shell-like modular platform. Using these often obsolete and forgotten containers offer builders a way to create an excellent sustainable building method which uses far fewer materials, less construction waste and offers the ability to recycle something that in the Arctic would often just sit there holding unused items. The reality is that Nunavut needs a way provide faster adequate housing. 

 

Sustainability has become an enormous proponent for political and financial concerns, government subsidized funding will always be inadequate with the current housing initiatives as there simply is not enough funding to build the necessary units to combat homelessness in Nunavut. The effects that homelessness plays on individuals is real. It places them in a state of unknown, it creates fear, dependency and often leads to people placing themselves or maybe even a loved one in a vulnerable state of despair. It not only affects the homeless person but also their direct families and even friends who may want to help but simply cannot help due to housing shortfalls in their own homes. This can often lead to serious mental health issues as well as bodily harm by them allowing things to be done to them out od desperation that should not or ultimately by the individual feeling such helplessness and committing suicide. 

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Challenge

The challenge is not in adapting the use of sea containers for housing in Nunavut, NO NO NO, the challenge is in the statement above. Perception of people, If you step back from the typical stereotypical outlook of container housing and the thought of living in a tin can that was once on a cargo ship and look at it with a bit of lateral thinking, what looks like a rusted old container is an ideal and readymade modular exoskeleton made from durable steel. No pun intended but right out of the box shipping containers offer a shell-like modular platform. Using these often obsolete and forgotten containers offer builders a way to create an excellent sustainable building method which uses far fewer materials, less construction waste and offers the ability to recycle something that in the Arctic would often just sit there holding unused items. The reality is that Nunavut needs a way provide faster adequate housing. 

 

Sustainability has become an enormous proponent for political and financial concerns, government subsidized funding will always be inadequate with the current housing initiatives as there simply is not enough funding to build the necessary units to combat homelessness in Nunavut. The effects that homelessness plays on individuals is real. It places them in a state of unknown, it creates fear, dependency and often leads to people placing themselves or maybe even a loved one in a vulnerable state of despair. It not only affects the homeless person but also their direct families and even friends who may want to help but simply cannot help due to housing shortfalls in their own homes. This can often lead to serious mental health issues as well as bodily harm by them allowing things to be done to them out od desperation that should not or ultimately by the individual feeling such helplessness and committing suicide.