The single-family home market for new construction has trended towards affluence, and so has the rental market.

The last couple months, we’ve been reporting with regularity on how our nation’s issues with inequality have manifested themselves in new construction, especially new single-family home sales and development.

It turns out, though, that the new construction rental landscape lends itself equally (if not more capably) to that narrative, and our local market here in Miami is a remarkable case study.

According to new research by the NYU Furman Center, just 6 percent of new construction rental units in Miami are affordable to lower-income residents, compared with 32 percent for middle-income and 74 percent for upper-income residents. Those numbers are striking for two reasons: one, that’s a shockingly low rate of affordability for Miami’s neediest households; and two, with 74 percent of units being accessible to upper-income residents, that means that 26 percent of new construction rentals are still out of reach for upper-tier individuals.

Take a look at our graph below for more perspective: