Kate Walters
Reporter
About
Kate is a reporter at KUOW covering the homelessness crisis and related issues.
Originally from Australia, Kate studied journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before coming to work in public radio.
Kate began her career as a reporter with WXXI Public Radio in Rochester, NY, where she worked as part of a Local Journalism Center called the Innovation Trail.
At KUOW, she started as a producer on The Record before joining the news desk.
Stories
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She felt her baby inside her and realized it was time to get clean
A few years ago, Mary was in a bad place. Mary isn’t her real name, we’ve changed it to protect her privacy. She was homeless, she’d lost her daughter to her former partner, she was using heroin and she was pregnant.
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Car-dwellers in Seattle may soon have parking spots to call their own
For about a year, TJ was homeless and living in a small, gray SUV with his wife Misty. At night, they would drive around trying to find somewhere to sleep. They looked for spots where they’d feel secure but they wouldn’t be asked to move.
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Can we end youth homelessness? Seattle/King County sets goal for 2021
Seattle and King County leaders say they’re combining their efforts to end youth homelessness, and they plan to do it by June 2021. Instead of working in silos, government, philanthropy and service providers will work together on a coordinated campaign to tackle youth homelessness.
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KUOW Newsroom
Homeless count down in King County but not everywhere in WA
Washington state has seen a slight overall decline in homelessness. And yet the number of people living on the streets or in shelters has gone up in about half the state’s counties.
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This is what you need to earn to afford a two-bedroom in Seattle
Renters in Washington state would need to make $27.78 per hour in order to afford a modest two-bedroom unit, according to a new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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'We have to do more': Community leaders respond to state report on missing indigenous women
Fifty-six Native American women are listed as missing in Washington, according to a new State Patrol report. But representatives of the Native American community told a Seattle City Council hearing on Wednesday that the numbers are an undercount, the result of persistent barriers to gathering data.
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KUOW Newsroom
Fewer people are homeless on Seattle streets, annual one-night count finds
Fewer people are living on the streets of Seattle than last year. That’s according to the annual one night count of people who are homeless in the region.
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Homeless encampment cleared after drug bust
A City of Seattle team began closing down an unauthorized homeless camp along South Dearborn Street in Seattle Monday.
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KUOW Newsroom
Fewer homeless people in Seattle area than last year, one-night count reports
For the first time in years, the results of King County’s annual tally of people experiencing homelessness has gone down. On a single night this January, 11,199 individuals were counted in places like shelters, tents, vehicles and on the streets. That’s an 8% decrease over the 2018 results, when 12,112 people were counted on a single night.
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KUOW Newsroom
Victims of Seattle crane collapse named
The names have been released of all four of those who were killed when a crane collapsed in Seattle over the weekend.