Angst grips America’s most liberal city

For decades, Seattle has been the vanguard of the nation’s progressive movement. It was the first major city to adopt a $15-per hour minimum wage, to allow gig economy workers to affiliate with a union, and to impose, albeit briefly, a per-employee tax on major corporations.

Along the way, it has experienced the explosive growth of a mammoth tech industry that has changed the face of a racially and economically diverse population. Neighborhoods once defined by commingling populations of immigrants and blue-collar families now teem with new condos, local restaurants have been replaced by high-end pot shops, and encampments filled with those who can no longer afford to live in their city now line the city’s two major freeways