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Why Container Homes Are Becoming the Go-To Airbnb Investment
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: August 2026 Most people shopping for a rental property are still looking at the same standard playbook: buy a house, buy a cabin, buy a duplex. But the fastest-growing part of the short-term rental market isn't standard housing at all — it's unique stays. Travelers are actively choosing distinctive, experience-driven properties over conventional options, and a container home Airbnb investment is one of the more efficient
Aug 214 min read
Data Center Workforce Housing Buyer's Guide
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 8 min | Updated: August 2026 Workforce housing has quietly become a critical-path procurement decision on nearly every rural data center build. But most GCs, developers, and housing operators are sourcing data center workforce housing for the first time, without a clear framework for how to evaluate options, size a campus, or time the decision against the broader project schedule. This guide walks through the practical basics: who's buyi
Aug 47 min read


How Modular Workforce Housing Scales Fast
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 A GC awarded a data center project doesn't have the luxury of a slow ramp. Mobilization windows are tight, crew counts scale into the thousands, and a housing provider who can't match that pace becomes the bottleneck on someone else's critical path. The question we get most from GCs and developers evaluating Base Camp by Boma isn't "can you build a nice unit" — the site and the concept package answer that. It's
Jul 286 min read


A Better Man Camp Alternative for Modern Projects
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 7 min | Updated: July 2026 Every workforce housing provider will tell you their camp is fast, scalable, and worker-friendly. Most of them are describing the same dormitory-trailer product with different paint colors. So what actually makes Base Camp by Boma a genuine man camp alternative — beyond marketing language? We built Base Camp by Boma by asking a different starting question than most man camp providers ask. Instead of "how do we
Jul 216 min read


Why Workforce Housing Matters for Crew Retention
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 For decades, the man camp procurement conversation was almost entirely about cost per bed. Lowest bidder wins, crews get bunked two to a room in a dormitory trailer, and the housing line item disappears into the broader project budget. That conversation is changing. On today's data center builds, the question GCs and developers are increasingly asking isn't "what's the cheapest way to house 1,000 workers?" It'
Jul 145 min read


Why Data Center Workforce Housing Is Surging
Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 The AI data center boom has a bottleneck that has nothing to do with power, chips, or permits: it's where to put the thousands of construction workers needed to build each campus. Across the country, data center workforce housing has quietly become one of the fastest-growing categories in construction — and the old "man camp" is being rebuilt from the ground up to meet it. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that
Jul 95 min read
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