Businessman says he could solve housing crisis with modular homes from new Cork base

Sea Box has two housing solutions — the converted shipping container for emergency housing, and its Cozy Home panel system for longer-term housing
Businessman says he could solve housing crisis with modular homes from new Cork base

Seabox chief executive Jim Brennan and his wife Maureen at the Brooklodge industrial estate in Glanmire. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

An American businessman whose firm specialises in modular homes says he could help solve Ireland’s migrant housing and homelessness crisis within months.

Jim Brennan Junior, the chief executive and owner of New Jersey-based Sea Box, a multi-million dollar company which converts and customises shipping containers for use as offices, hospitals and homes, made his comments after securing planning permission for the development of a new company base in Ireland.

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