A Brewing Rebellion in the Emerald City

Seattle residents are losing patience with the city’s out-of-control homelessness problem.

For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious:…