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If by 'calamity' you mean something like a natural disaster, the answer is not simple, because the conditions after the disaster can influence the cost and even ability to quickly build housing in the area.

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A calamity might make it expensive or nearly impossible to: transport materials or workers, feed house and keep reasonably safe the workers, find materials, get permission, locate acceptable space to build, obtain sufficient power and fuel.

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This is what makes box-car style, train and trailer transportable housing attractive for such situations.

Thanks your input. I assumed the relocation site is ready for the temporary or permanent shelter.

In review, I think I may have read something into your question that it now seems you likely did not intend.

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When talking about home construction, I typically associate the term 'built' with 'stick-built' or 'site-built'.

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I know that many people don't use the term with that specification in mind, so I am going to be more mindful going forward.

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Many of the problems I mentioned would have far less impact on non-site built homes. Pricing also is far more simple and more reliable.

Ok thanks.

The simplest form of low-cost housing is a camping tent. Google "camping equipment suppliers" and check their catalogues, perhaps?

Yes, this is a time proven method. Its been around for at least 30 centuries or more. It is still used at the present time. Remember Katrina?

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Good Luck, Old Salt

low cost housing....move back to mommy and daddy for awhile

The IKEA response was to the shortcomings of tents in those disaster situations.

Many of the displaced people end up in these camps for years rather than weeks. The available tents don't offer the level of privacy and adequate "discrete" opportunities for the families to function.

There is a significant difference between the major "first world" response and recovery compared to the capabilities of the those less fortunate.

What's better- A tent or no shelter at all? A dirty tent over your head or the open sky?

Good Luck, Old Salt

Please visit following web site for detailed information:-

http://nlihc.org/issues/other/disaster.

Here is something that would work as a temporary shelter...

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/concrete-canvas-makes-erecting-permanent-buildings-easy-pitching-tent

Consider shipping containers.Durable,secure,and relatively cheap in countries that have an import\export surplus imbalance.

Here is a link for one such supplier, but may not be the cheapest,and you did not give your location.Do a google search for "shipping containers as housing"

http://www.iport.com/containers_for_sale.html?src=gad&acp=smoi&adg=sc&ad=3324312182&gclid=CMPUwOOb8bsCFYl9OgodeF4AkQ

I have seen where they are stacked together for multi-family use,but cannot remember where I saw them used.

Good luck.

Floors are soaked in pesticide. Floors must be replaced. Lots of people do not and end up sick pretty quickly.

Ordinary sunlight turns them into ovens. Useless in hot hurricane prone countries. In Kandahar, the barracks were built of plywood, the containers, full of supplies were placed around the perimiter to act as bullet catchers.

The cost per square foot to put windows and doors exceeds the cost of a stick built house of the same size. (when labour costs are taken out...because people must build their own crib)

They make great storage facilities.

Keep goods in them to keep looters out. They catch or repel bullets really well.

Don't bother living in them without lots and lots of expensive mods. This might be a more viable and less expensive option.

Here is a study on container housing specifically targeted to the Phillipine disaster.

They decided it was too difficult to build because it needed a firm (concrete) foundation and air conditioning, which simply is not available. They also decided it was more expensive to build container buildings than concrete buildings.

Remember, the phillipines has 90million people. A buck a head tax did more to help than all the other nations in the world. Why? Simple...we go in, help for awhile then go away. The country takes over once they get their act together. Thats what happened there, and it worked!

I recently saw on Home and Garden Television (HGTV.com) a modular style home (700-900 sqft) by a German architect that could haul in by truck, lift by crane, connect to power, water, sewer and be livable in a day. It was fully fitted and designed to be mobile more than the first time. You might try your search there. Some foundation work was needed before delivery. For a temporary installation this would not need to be extensive.

Undefined global. Are we talkin' mud, prefab, tent, what? Styrofoam overlayered with concrete? Shipping containers?

New idea: Walk like an Egyptian. Let the poor devils make their own shelters, putting them to work making bricks in the hot sun. Do be merciful and provide clay and straw. For the roofs, supply some cheap recycled corrugated galvanized sheet metal. If it ever rains, then they can catch the run-off and have more water, or you could be even more merciful and provide small plastic tanks to be filled up on a weekly basis from a delivery truck.

go to www.zego.com.au

Quick solution is buying converted shipping containers or portable cabins.

Please re read post number 19 again. Shipping containers are NOT a viable or inexpensive option.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/shipping-container-homes-460309#slide-1

I wonder why they used these toxic,poisonous,expensive to modify containers?

Did you not read my links?

Shipping containers are not green, they are not comfortable, and they are more expensive to modify than to make properly built stick or concrete built buildings.

I had spent about half an hour justifying those statements, with links and stuff, and hit a button on the side of my computer and somehow lost it all.

However, I believe the only place you can use shipping containers with economy are in "fly in" offices and barracks in the North where cost is no object, and as student housing in places like London where rents are out of line with the possible ability to pay for them when just starting out in the work force.

I do not believe you can exist in a container in the tropics. Too hot, and if you cut holes to cool them off...they are no longer secure.