As Washington tries to create more housing for the future, it’s finding inspiration from the past.

It’s going to get easier to build boarding house-style buildings in Spokane.

That type of housing is now called co-living, and it’s what Washington state is requiring all its cities to allow more of.

“Co-living is a kind of residential development where you have the individual sleeping units which are rentable as individual units, but they do share the cooking facilities," said Spokane city planner Brandon Whitmarsh.

Whitmarsh told the plan commission last week that this isn’t a new idea.

“This is a housing type that was historically very common, similar to middle housing in the late 1800s, early 1900s as the city was experiencing a significant population boom," he said.

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