Leighton Woodhouse

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Documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist whose work focuses on the homelessness crisis, drug policy, and housing failures in California and across the United States. Woodhouse has produced ground-level documentary reporting from tent cities, drug treatment facilities, and the neighborhoods most affected by urban policy failures — reporting that challenges both progressive and conservative orthodoxies about the root causes of homelessness. His Substack combines written journalism with video dispatches and has built a devoted readership among people frustrated by the gap between official narratives and street-level reality in American cities.

Known for

Produced documentary reporting from tent cities and shelter systems that challenged official narratives on homelessness
His investigations into California's drug treatment industry documented widespread fraud and patient abuse
Reported extensively on the failure of harm reduction policies in West Coast cities
Combines documentary filmmaking and written journalism to provide ground-level coverage mainstream outlets rarely produce