The question I get asked the most: Are we building too many apartments?

There are almost 50,000 rental units on the way in North Texas — more than any other area in the country. So far, we've needed every one of those apartments.

Almost 80,000 people a year are moving here to fill the more than 100,000 jobs we are creating annually in Dallas-Fort Worth. Most of them are younger workers who rent apartments.

Still, there were expectations of a slowdown this year. Six weeks into the new year, I see no sign of that.

In the last week, I've written about another 280 apartments on the way in West Dallas. And a 310-unit high-rise rental building will start soon near Dallas' Knox Street.

Out at Cypress Waters along Interstate 635, developer Billingsley Co. is building another 537 lakeside apartments in its Sound project. In Plano, the 50-acre Mustang Square development will get underway with 448 apartments along State Highway 121. And up at Billingsley's hugely successful Austin Ranch, just west of Plano, they're starting 700 units.

On Thursday, I wrote about the first residents moving into 300 new apartments on the banks of the Trinity River.

Does that sound like a slowdown? Guess the apartment builders didn't get the memo.

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