Micro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars

The Pacific Northwest is a leader in the resurgence of boarding houses, or “micro-apartments” to combat cities affordable housing crisis.

SEATAC, Wash. — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose.

The 180-square-foot (17-square-meter) room is filled with an air mattress where she, her partner and their children, ages 2 and 4, sleep. It’s also where they play or watch TV. At mealtimes, it becomes their dining room.

It’s a tight squeeze for the family of asylum seekers from Venezuela. But at $900 a month —more than $550 less than the average studio in Seattle

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