KITH receives a monthly average of 150 requests for service from families caught in a homelessness crisis.

Homelessness continues to rise at an alarming rate in King County - over 70% since 1998.

Over 50% of shelter requests by homeless families in 2005 went unmet, because of lack or available shelter.

According to an Associate Press poll conducted in February 2005, only 53% of Americans believe that homelessness is a very serious problem and 56% believe people who are homeless for long periods of time are victims of circumstances beyond their control.

A national report "Out of Reach 2006," states that a full-time worker in King County must earn $16.42 an hour -- more than twice the state minimum wage of $7.63 -- in order to rent a modest two-bedroom apartment. Minimum-wage workers in the county must work 86 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom unit, the report says, while statewide, minimum-wage earners are shut out of fair-market rent for even a one-bedroom unit.

On the Eastside less than 1% of available housing is affordable to persons earning $8.00 an hour.

A Gonzaga University study determined that at anytime available statistics on homeless families should be multiplied by at least 8, because 80% of homeless families are staying unofficially with friends or relatives.

The Seattle One Night Count in January 2007 identified 7839+ homeless individuals in the Greater Seattle area, several hundred of these persons were grouped in families.