![For permanent RV residents in the oil field, space is at a premium. Some enterprising owners build mud rooms that rival the trailers they are attached to in size, like this on at Fox Run RV Park in Williston, North Dakota.](https://s4745.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Andrew-Cullen.jpg)
By Jennifer Oldham | BloombergBusiness
Chain saws and staple guns echo across a $40 million residential complex under construction in Williston, North Dakota, a few miles from almost-empty camps once filled with oil workers.
After struggling to house thousands of migrant roughnecks during the boom, the state faces a new real-estate crisis: The frenzied drilling that made it No. 1 in personal-income growth and job creation for five consecutive years hasn’t lasted long enough to support the oil-fueled building explosion.