Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Houseboat on Land. [ARTICLE]

Houseboat on Land.

The housing shortage in Cincinnati is presenting some unique problems to the building commissioner, George Hauser. The owner of a houseboat on the Ohio river asked permission to transfer the cabin of his boat to a foundation which he has prepared on Southside avenue. In, the summer he plans to restore It to the boat, thus using the cabin as an all-year-round home. The purchaser of a number of discarded cottages built%for the governtnent nitrate plant at Ancor, near Cincinnati, has applied for a permit to bring them into the city and erect them into flat buildings by arranging them three on top of each other. He contends that this can be done with safety and convenience.