🚨 Low-barrier shelters bring chaos into the neighborhoods they inhabit and do little to restore the homeless to lives of health and purpose. Take the Madison Valley neighborhood in Seattle as an example. Open-air drug use, psychotic behavior, violence, and criminal activity, all originating from a low-barrier homeless shelter opened in 2018, have turned this picturesque community upside down.

🚨 SEATTLE RESIDENTS ERUPT: Mayor Katie Wilson was nowhere to be found at a North Seattle anti-violence march as neighbors demanded action on Aurora Ave N. @choeshow Residents blasted Wilson as a "coward," accusing her of ignoring the human trafficking crisis, open-air prostitution, and violent pimp wars that have plagued the corridor for years. "If the mayor won't show up, who will?"

🔥HEATED EXHANGE between Spencer Pratt and Seattle mayor, Katie Wilson who claims that housing costs (not drug addiction) is fueling the STAGGERING homeless/drug crisis across the US. This comes after more than a decade of failed Housing First policies adopted in major cities across the US after the federal push in 2013.

Is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning the fight against homelessness? @SIXSEVENSTORIES took to the streets of NYC and asked residents, business owners, and homeless individuals themselves. Despite promising to end encampment sweeps, Mamdani has brought them back. What do you think? 👇

🚨JUST IN: @kevinvdahlgren captures RAMPANT shoplifting at a Whole Foods in San Francisco, where employees say they can be punished for trying to stop thieves. California’s soft-on-crime policies allow repeat offenders to keep stealing/reselling while businesses suffer.

Seattle spends $349.5 million annually on affordable housing (5x more than in 2019) per NCHStats. Yet the city still ranks 3rd worst in America for homelessness. Something isn’t working.

🚨SEATTLE: In less than a month, Seattle will host FIFA World Cup matches with thousands of international visitors expected to flood the city. Just minutes from the stadium, homeless drug addicts continue to take over parts of Seattle’s Chinatown International District. @choeshow captured a fentanyl addict nearly burn himself after passing out in the middle of the street.

🚨SHOCKING: @nickshirleyy and @choeshow walk through the horrifying reality inside Seattle’s Little Saigon. Open-air drug use, stolen goods markets, and homeless drug addicts have completely taken over public spaces and have made it impossible for local businesses to operate. Police drive by without intervening, while critics say Seattle’s leadership is attempting to hide the crisis unfolding in broad daylight.

x.com/choeshow/status/205459… 🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Seattle crews are clearing more than 30 drug tents out of Chinatown-ID today as officials scramble to clean up the city before the FIFA World Cup. Many of the addicts living here are refusing shelter and services offered by the city, meaning the encampments are simply moving block to block as the cycle continues. Critics argue taxpayers are funding an endless cycle while recovery-focused groups like We Heart Seattle continue doing the hard work of getting people into treatment.