Housing

Putting Seattle's Progressive Bona Fides to the Test

Housing, homelessness, and police reform continue to dog the Emerald City.
An encampment of homeless people called Nickelsville sits on the outskirts of Seattle, where home prices have surged in recent years.Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

We asked contributors to tell us what issues and challenges are most likely to shape 2017 in their metropolitan areas.

The morning after Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States, officials in Seattle gathered at City Hall to assure those who Trump had insulted and threatened during the campaign—women, people of color, immigrants, refugees—that they still had a welcome home in this city overlooking the waters of Puget Sound.