For the first time, more apartments than houses are being built in Omaha

The market swing over the past four years signifies growth — but also how unaffordable homeownership has become for potential buyers.

Construction crews work on the Tallgrass Apartments in Papillion. In the past four years, more multi-family housing units — almost all of them apartments — have been built than single-family homes in the Omaha metro. Photo by Lily Smith/Flatwater Free Press

By Henry J. Cordes

Aug. 27…

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