The reason Seattle is being overrun with homelessness has more to do with pot legalization, artificially high minimum wages, lax enforcement of vagrancy and public nuisance laws, etc. The fact that home prices continue to increase suggests that more people are moving in than out.
You can stop at the Pot legalization part....that was the beginning.
Not all pot smokers are the stereotypical stoner who does nothing except get high...
But when WA legalized it, a huge percentage of the stereotypical stoners moved here.
So we have a giant slice of the lazy lay about do nothing freeloading “I just wanna get hi bro” types.
And it has devolved from there as the leftists’ answers to our current societal problems actually enable and encourage more of the problem.
We have drug addicts and violent mentally I’ll folks camped out in our city and the polocitcal class with the help of the media keeps calling it a “housing affordability crisis.”
As if the solution to our problems are lower rents.
You could have free housing and it won’t help solve the drug addiction or mentally I’ll problems we have walking around.