Longtime houseboaters are being forced to leave a Brooklyn marina due to scheduled renovations, highlighting the dwindling availability of affordable housing options and the challenges of finding suitable alternatives.
As Barry Green tells it, his 47-foot houseboat was a hunk of junk rotting away at a South Jersey marina when he bought it. He completely rebuilt it, insulated its interior, and had it towed to a dock beside Brooklyn ’s Kings Plaza mall 12 years ago.
Those facing eviction can’t easily move their floating homes. Even if they could, the number of “liveaboard” docks where people can live on houseboats are dwindling across the five boroughs. And, in a nautical version of supply and demand, rents are rising at the marinas that still allow full-time residents. Prices are spiking on land, too.
Gothamist contacted 15 marinas across all five boroughs to see if they accept full-time residents. Representatives from each said they prohibit “liveaboards,” though one said they look the other way for longtime residents. Dawson did not respond to questions from Gothamist and instead referred an email and phone call to the mall’s parent company Macerich, a retail real estate behemoth that owns at least 40across the country. Macerich spokesperson Denise James said the company declined to comment and that she had no information about why mall executives wanted to remove the houseboat residents from the dock.
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