By allowing denser housing along public-transit corridors, Lexington, Massachusetts, is responding to the crises of housing affordability and rising temperatures—as well as a legacy of racism.
, Lexington had formed a Suburban Responsibility Commission, which undertook to figure out how to integrate the town. Lexington’s segregation—on the surface, at least—was enforced more by economics than bigotry; at the time, Black people were, for all the obvious historical reasons, poorer than their white counterparts, and few could afford to buy into the rapidly escalating real-estate market.
But local law allowed residents to gather signatures to force a town-wide plebiscite, and that’s what happened. After a short campaign, more than half the town’s registered voters went to the polls, and a majority seemingly decided that they wanted to take no chances with the onward march of property values in their tidy community. The plan was voted down, 5,175 to 2,718. The local newspaper reported that the defeat represented “a strong voice against subsidized housing for Lexington.
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