houseboat
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houseboats
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Nenna, an unemployed 32-year-old musician, lives in a leaky houseboat with her two young daughters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Earlier this week, the Green Party admitted that Polanski may have failed to pay council tax while living in a houseboat moored in an east London marina.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Polanski has been under pressure to explain whether the houseboat, moored at a marina in east London, had been his primary residence.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Matt Gibson, 52, moors his sage-green houseboat, bedecked with plants, on the Regent's Canal near central London.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
In December, Meng tells me we will relocate to Long Deang to live on a houseboat with one of Eang’s sisters and her family in the lower end of the Mekong Delta.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Wreckage from the 1906 earthquake was used to build the first “arks,” houseboats in Sausalito, providing a quirky infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
After declining in use, "a restoration movement came about in the '60s" and people began to live on canal houseboats, Clarke said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
According to local news outlets, Redwood City council told people living in houseboats in the marina to leave because the boats were blocking public access to a state waterway.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024
Aqib said some cooking gas cylinders exploded after the blaze started in the houseboats where tourists from outside Kashmir come and stay.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
Our two houseboats are twenty feet long and ten feet wide and are docked side by side.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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