>>212257096Lefties voted to decriminalize drug possession, shoplifting, and trespassing (e.g. sleeping outside), and offer free food, housing, and injection sites to bums. When bums caught wind of it they flooded into Seattle to take advantage of it.
Rent increased because of the increased taxes to fund all the government gibs. And then all the people wealthy enough to leave left the city ended up leaving, causing less tax revenue.