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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Seattle officials try to bring people inside from the cold, with mixed results
The city's Navigation Team helped 24 people travel to shelter Monday night and transported 67 people to shelters on Sunday.
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After years of delays, affordable housing plan for Fort Lawton may move forward
More than 200 affordable units could be coming to a swath of land near Discovery Park.
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As freezing cold continues, Seattle opens emergency shelters
Local officials have opened additional temporary shelter beds this week to try to get more people experiencing homelessness off the streets and out of the freezing temperatures. “We’re very concerned about people living out in the elements when we have a cold snap like this,” said King County Executive Dow Constantine.
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Seattle will open a cold weather shelter for the homeless as temperatures dip
Seattle is opening a severe weather shelter for people who are homeless as the city prepares for temperatures to dip near freezing.
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Three years after a fatal shooting, the Jungle has changed and so has this man
Kevin Boggs awoke to flashing red and blue lights. It was a wake-up call.
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One night a year, Seattle tries to count all of its homeless residents. This is how volunteers do it
Small trails that lead away from the road. The sound of a generator. The glint of canvas in the glare of a flashlight. These are just some of the things that Daniel Long was looking for in the wee hours of Friday morning as he helped conduct the annual one night count of people experiencing homelessness.
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The one-night count of Seattle's homeless is always an undercount. But here's why we do it
The one-night count, explained.
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The viaduct covered homeless camps, but now those have to go
As Seattle prepares for the Alaskan Way Viaduct to come down, drivers aren't the only ones experiencing change. People living underneath in homeless camps also have to move on.
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A man with disabilities was left at an ER. He stayed there three weeks
Adults with disabilities are living in hospitals, because they have nowhere else to go.
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Got a spare room? This program wants to use it to help homeless youth
All over the county there are bedrooms sitting empty. At the same time, thousands of people are sleeping on the streets. The Host Homes program aims to shelter youth who are homeless, or on the brink of homelessness, by pairing them with hosts in the community who have a room to spare and are willing to take them in for up to six months.