Local news accounts about people who live on the water in Keehi Stream, occupying a ramshackle, scrap-built “houseboat” and collection of floating rafts, led to a short, viral run of stories across the U.S. last week: Distant readers were drawn in by the tale of standoffish, unhoused individuals — “skittish squatters” in New York Post lingo — who used ingenuity, scrap wood and deconstructed tents to build a two-story structure atop a floating platform, and sourced solar panels to power a kitchen. ...read more read less