Shipping homes in containers has been a trend for some time, from reality TV shows to discussions of housing policy.You can even stay at one on Airbnb.But the truth is, these homes are a lot harder to build than you might think.It's easy to think that housing solutions are purely technological, but many barriers to housing are not in construction but in the policies surrounding housing construction.Additionally, many of the supposed benefits of shipping containers turn out to be more complicated in reality.Vox's Phil Edwards spent a night in a shipping container house to see how the experience of staying in a shipping container compares to the reality of building a container.Watch Phil tour other homes that were once considered the future of housing in America.He stayed in a Lustron, a prefabricated steel house.Watch it here.You can find this video and all Vox videos on our YouTube channel.