
New affordable housing is hard to find in Midland-Odessa, as a recent study from RentCafe shows that 100 percent of the new apartments completed in 2015 were high-end units. Nationally, 75 percent of all apartments that came on the market last year were priced at luxury levels.
Considering how much the new construction in the single-family market is lagging, the limited number of new affordable rentals could be eroding would-be homeowners’ future buying power.