♪ know you're not alone ♪ because i'm going to make this place your home ♪ well, this morning we are hearing about making a very different kind of place your home. >> that's right -- it's not a house of bricks, wood, or concrete block, but a house of steel. not just any kind of steel, recycled shipping containers, coming soon to a neighborhood near you. imagine if 84 tons of chinese steel moved in next to your house. this is going to be an apartment building? >> yeah, this is going to be an apartment building. >> wow, man. hey, doc, did you hear what they're putting up? they're putting up shipping containers. >> reporter: that's right. shipping containers that once carried everything from bananas to ipads across oceans now making waves in an historic part of the nation's capital. lowering down the 18th. final shipping container. six tons of steel will become somebody's apartment. there will be 24 bedrooms filling four floors. each its own rental unit.