Official says ND housing crunch is spreading
The head of the North Dakota Coalition for the Homeless says the housing shortage in the western North Dakota oil patch is moving east across the state.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The head of the North Dakota Coalition for the Homeless says the housing shortage in the western North Dakota oil patch is moving east across the state.
Michael Carbone (kahr-BOHN’) tells North Dakota Public Radio that outside of Grand Forks, vacant apartments are almost nonexistent. He says the vacancy rate in Williston and Minot is zero, in Dickinson it's half a percent and in Bismarck it's 1 percent. Even in Fargo the rate is low, at less than 4 percent. Between 5 and 8 percent is considered healthy.
Carbone says people are coming to North Dakota thinking it's a land of opportunity but many of them are unprepared for the housing crunch.
He says the homeless coalition will bring some proposals to the Legislature next year to address the problem.
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