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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Serial rapists targeted women on Aurora. This woman got justice
In June 2017, Robin Curtis lived in a tent one block away from busy Aurora Avenue in Seattle.
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Seattle and King County poised to merge homeless services
Seattle and King County are likely to have an agreement to merge their homelessness services before the end of the year. Seattle's city council took a step forward today to create a regional homelessness authority.
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KUOW Newsroom
Controversial regional homelessness authority plan moves forward with big changes
Legislators from across King County voted unanimously Thursday to move forward with a plan to unite Seattle and King County’s homelessness services. The legislation to create a regional homelessness authority was passed out of the county’s Regional Policy Committee (RPC). But it still faces hurdles. It must now go before the full King County Council and the Seattle City Council. And it’s not without controversy.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle Children’s ‘engaged in a cover-up' after mold infections, lawsuit claims
Seattle Children's hospital is facing lawsuits over mold-related deaths and infections.
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KUOW Newsroom
New precedent for how parking laws are enforced for vehicle residents?
If someone's vehicle is their home, can it be towed and impounded for violating parking laws, with fees owed to get it back? That's one of the questions at the heart of a case in front of the Washington State court of Appeals.
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KUOW Newsroom
New Seattle City Council, same policy on homelessness?
Homelessness was a big issue – maybe THE issue -- for Seattle voters in Wednesday’s City Council election. But the results are mixed bag ... so far.
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Elections
It’s election week in Seattle! Your Wednesday update
In the race for the open seat in the Seattle city council's District 7 race, which includes Queen Anne and downtown, the gap between former Seattle police chief Jim Pugel and assistant city attorney Andrew Lewis has narrowed dramatically.
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KUOW Newsroom
Can a partnership with landlords get homeless into housing?
In a tight rental market, finding affordable housing in King County is a tall order for anyone. But what if you have a flawed rental history, low credit, or gaps because you’ve been homeless? A new non-profit aims to build bridges between service organizations trying to house homeless clients and the private rental market.
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KUOW Newsroom
A homeless village in Seattle for Native people, with medicine garden and healing circles
Tucked away in a lot in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood sits a modular housing project, which aims to give Native American and Alaskan Native people a path out of homelessness. It’s called Eagle Village and it will serve as temporary housing for up to 30 people, giving them a place to stabilize, access services, and look for permanent housing.
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KUOW Newsroom
How to vote if you're homeless
It’s election season and if you want to vote in Washington state you need to make sure you’re registered. Monday marks the deadline for people registering online.