London's Housing Crisis Drives Thousands to Live on Boats

Thousands of Londoners have turned to living on boats moored along the city's waterways as an alternative to increasingly unaffordable traditional housing. Near the busy King's Cross railway station, one of Britain's major transport hubs, hundreds of boats line the slowly flowing canals where residents have made their homes on the water. The phenomenon reflects London's severe housing affordability crisis, with boat living serving different purposes for different people - while some choose the lifestyle for personal identity reasons, others are driven to the water by economic necessity as conventional housing costs continue to soar in the British capital.