Old shipping containers 'home' to the poor
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For $80 a month, shipping containers are available for rental to poor households in Shanghai
In the glitzy Chinese port city of Shanghai, home for some poor families is, well, a shipping container.
The containers, which provide shelter for households which cannot afford proper housing, are each leased out at 500 yuan (USD80) per month. Even though these people have shelter and fare better than those without, there is still no proper insulation against the cold in winter months.
Lighting conditions are poor, and families have to rely on artificial light when inside the containers because of the lack of windows cut into the containers.
The little girl's jacket is a bright contrast to the dreary landscape of rusty shipping containers.
Some families try to build a semblance of a home by tiling their 'front yard', adding steps and erecting dividers as fences. They also ingeniously add transparent sliding doors to let natural light in during the day while maintaining some privacy.
Mother and son share a quick meal outside the shipping containers. The painted red sign reads 'scrap metal recovery'.
A young boy peers curiously from behind the screen door in his shipping container home. Despite it being the day, the containers are dark and grim.
Families have to be organized to fit their different living spaces into the narrow container. Here, a family arranges the kitchen alongside their bed and puts hooks along the wall to keep things off the floor, saving precious space.
The stacked containers cast long shadows onto the street. Residents can benefit, especially at night, if street lamps were to be installed.
