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Housing Updates

Nearly 2,000 MBTA and SRD multifamily units are being added since 2023

Updated as of 12/12/2025

Data sources and assumptions listed below.

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Lexington housing trend 10-year projection

Decrease of the percentage of single family homes: from 75% to 56%
Increase in the percentage of multifamily housing: from 25% to 46%
~4,000 additional housing units, increase in total housing units by 34%
Increase in percentage of affordable housing (nominal: 11% to 12%; actual 6% to 8%)
The number of multifamily housing units is on a trajectory to surpass single -family units

Lexington Non-Single-Family Developments & Projections

Data source & assumptions behind the charts on this page:

https://dls-gw.dor.state.ma.us/reports/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=AverageSingleTaxBill.SingleFamTaxBill_wRange

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/multi-family-zoning-requirement-for-mbta-communities

https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/MA/Lexington-Demographics.html

https://www.lexingtonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/12912/-FY2025-STREET-LISTING?bidId=

https://lexingtonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14088/Article-2-Presentation-Slides-03-14-2025?bidId=

Assumptions:

14% of total units in MBTA overlay and SRD developments will be affordable housing (based on the actual 15% from pipeline projects and 15% required in zoning, reduced 1% to be conservative and account for the fact that projects with fewer than 10 units are not required to include affordable units.
Applied a factor of 66% over the MBTA unit capacity to the 60 acres of zoning freeze based on actual data of the 1,076 units in the pipeline.
Applied a factor of 50% over the MBTA unit capacity to the remaining 90 acre MBTA zoning after Article 2 (excluding the 7 acres already counted in zoning freeze).

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