Like most Americans, I am sure you have plans for the big Memorial Day weekend — a barbecue, a road trip or maybe a jaunt to the beach.

For the well-to-do, the celebrity set and the powerful, beach homes in places like The Hamptons, Nantucket and Myrtle Beach beckon.

But summer schemes in these ritzy enclaves are going far beyond rest and relaxation these days: They are building affordable housing.

As Boston reporter Taylor Driscoll reports, affordability has become so dire that these beach towns can’t find workers for restaurants, shops, hotels, resorts, landscaping, public services, firefighting, law enforcement or to staff the multimillion-dollar mansions that dot the beachfront.

Historically aggressive NIMBYism has apparently gone with the breeze, and revealed an unlikely affordable housing solution.

— Mark F. Bonner, Bisnow Editor-in-Chief