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    Draussenseiter vendor Hans Baars: “I have to think positively, even though the world isn’t positive at all”

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      Les Morts de la Rue: Brussels’ network to eulogise people experiencing homelessness

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        Inside Serbia’s girls-only rock camp

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          “I’m coming back for them”: Street Sense vendor on securing housing

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          an elderly woman cooking in a small kitchen

            Familial love transcends homelessness

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            a man taking part in a march, holding a pink placard that says 'refugees welcome'

              “Mass accommodation exacerbates the problem”: Ingo Schäfer on refugees’ mental health

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                In Conversation with Sebastian Rocca: Micro Rainbow

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                  She Matters: fighting Australia’s femicide crisis

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                    What the Trump administration means for Americans experiencing homelessness

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                      INSP seeks participants to Change the Narrative on Homelessness

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                        Apropos vendor Igboanugo Anyichukwu: “I feel like I’m part of this community”

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                          Nasim Eshqi: “The voice of free women will always be written in the mountains”

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                            Street paper news service bolstered by professional memberships

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                            a group of people facing the camera with a campsite in the background, all with their fists in the air.

                              Sacramento encampment residents thought they’d found stability. Why did their lease fall apart?

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                              a woman sits at a kitchen table inside a small apartment

                                25 square metres of freedom: inside Germany’s micro-apartments

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                                INSP's CEO and archivist at GCU

                                  Charity delivers world's largest archive of street newspapers to Glasgow Caledonian

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                                    Meet Ruth, The Big Issue Australia vendor in Adelaide

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                                      Homeless on the doorstep of EU

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                                      a man in a yellow hoodie sitting at a table, drawing

                                        “Pictures are my soul”: inside the Academy of the Street

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                                        a pile of camping supplies sitting in a field, in front of houses and a mountain

                                          Alamosa’s sanctioned camp takes care of its people

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                                            Apropos vendors Monica and Daniel: “We’re doing well because we can help back home”

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                                              We can no longer afford the rich

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                                              blue and white drawing of a woman being stepped on by a giant foot

                                                Workplace discrimination leads to exploitation of Serbian women in Germany

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                                                a man in a grey t-shirt standing in foront of a rack of magazines

                                                  Meet Faktum vendor Lisandro

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                                                  a woman in a black hoodie examining another woman's nose

                                                    Surgery on the street

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                                                    cartoon graphic of a man falling off a cliff

                                                      How the “benefits cliff” traps people in poverty

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                                                      Brian (left) and Callum (right) of the Slanj Kilts team posing with a table of homeless tartan products

                                                        Brian Halley: Designing the homeless tartan

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                                                          Romy St John: Changing the narrative in literature

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                                                          Judi Alston giving a speech at the 'Changing the narrative on homelessness and poverty' event in Glasgow

                                                            Judi Alston on breaking down barriers with technology

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                                                            Changing the narrative, INSP's event at the Clayton Hotel

                                                              INSP turns 30

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                                                              Changing the narrative on homelessness & poverty - an event in Glasgow on 28 November

                                                                INSP to host 'Changing the narrative on homelessness' event in Glasgow

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                                                                INSP Awards 2024

                                                                  INSP Awards 2024: shortlists and winners

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                                                                    INSP Awards 2024- Best Cover

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                                                                      Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

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                                                                        A good life for all: Accessing welfare with an LGBTQ+ identity

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                                                                        Global Forum for Media Development

                                                                          INSP joins the Global Forum for Media Development

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                                                                          Apropos vendor Edi Binder

                                                                            Edi Binder on growing up in the shadow of war

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                                                                            Exhibition on street papers in Bern, Switzerland

                                                                              How do you create an exhibition about street papers?

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                                                                              New psychologists stand together

                                                                                Entrant psychologists help people experiencing homelessness in Hungary

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                                                                                Two people lie together in sleeping bags in the snow

                                                                                  Sexuality and homelessness in Montreal, Canada

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                                                                                  Picture of Helen Cruz who has been repeatedly fined for sleeping in Grants Pass

                                                                                    Grants Pass v. Johnson homelessness case to go before US Supreme Court

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                                                                                    AOTY Portraits – Australian of the Year Awards 2024 – Salty Dingo 2024

                                                                                      Yalmay Yunupinu: “We must have our land, language and culture”

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                                                                                      Stefan Gogov by Anja Mihić

                                                                                        Meet Liceulice vendor Stefan Gogov

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                                                                                        Jarkko “Jake” Jalonen defies the cold weather, checks the pictures on his phone

                                                                                          How Finland succeeded in reducing homelessness

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                                                                                            Arts & Homelessness International Award winners announced

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                                                                                            Mirjam Leitner surrounded by the Apropos choir. Photo credit: Norbert Kopf

                                                                                              Apropos editor Michaela Gründler: “I take all voices into account”

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                                                                                              Big Issue Taiwan

                                                                                                Meet Kang Chiu-yen, Big Issue Taiwan vendor at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Taipei Bridge Station

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                                                                                                UK Poverty 2024 /Joseph Rowntree Foundation

                                                                                                  INSP responds to UK Poverty report

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                                                                                                  AI generated picture shows the future of journalism in 2024 with a young man working on a home computer showing human elements.

                                                                                                    Journalism in the year 2024

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                                                                                                    Picture of Museum of Liverpool, where the Global Street Paper Summit will be held

                                                                                                      Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

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                                                                                                      Meet Traços vendor Thifany Branco

                                                                                                        Meet Traços vendor Thifany Branco

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                                                                                                        The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

                                                                                                          The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

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                                                                                                          “I’m not a beggar, I’m a trader”

                                                                                                            “I’m not a beggar, I’m a trader”: 30 years of BISS

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                                                                                                            Journalism is not a crime

                                                                                                              'Journalism is not a crime' - reflections on the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Trust conference

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                                                                                                              Arts & Homelessness International Awards

                                                                                                                New Arts and Homelessness International Awards launched

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                                                                                                                Report on Scottish Social Enterprises impact

                                                                                                                  New report: 'Scotland – A world leader in international social enterprise'

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                                                                                                                  Korean street soccer project participants play football on a 5-a-side pitch

                                                                                                                    How street papers and street soccer go together at the 2023 Homeless World Cup in Sacramento

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                                                                                                                    Juha Kaakinen wears glasses a white shirt and black jacket. He is photographed walking down a busy street.

                                                                                                                      Finland is saying goodbye to homelessness: An interview with Juha Kaakinen

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                                                                                                                      Lice v Lice vendor Memet Kamber, who passed away due to complications from diabetes, stands smiling holding a copy of the magazine, wearing a grey jacket and a red and grey vest.

                                                                                                                        Lice v Lice vendor Memet Kamber’s death highlights the struggle undocumented citizens in North Macedonia face accessing health care

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                                                                                                                        Street papers provide people in poverty with an immediate source of income while driving long-term change through journalism and advocacy.

                                                                                                                        Why street papers?

                                                                                                                        Changing lives

                                                                                                                        The cycle of homelessness is real... walking in that door (of the Big Issue), getting asked your first name and do you want to work? The power in that one sentence did so much for me.

                                                                                                                        Vendor Rachel, Big Issue Australia
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                                                                                                                        Changing perceptions

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                                                                                                                        Street paper journalism is thorough and sharp and grounded in the social change required to end poverty and homelessness in our cities.

                                                                                                                        Sean, street paper reader, Vancouver, Canada.

                                                                                                                        Changing society

                                                                                                                        Street papers shape the cities we love and the values of the world in which we want to live.

                                                                                                                        Nikoleta Kosovac, Liceulice, Serbia
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