An ongoing study conducted by the Poverty Alliance, Scotland's anti-poverty network, and researchers at the University of Stirling has been collecting the experiences of LGBT+ people who have been accessing welfare services in the UK. This is their story.

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

INSP partners with Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) to provoke discussion on how people experiencing homelessness and poverty are represented in the media. 


Changing the narrative on homelessness and poverty 

The grant has been awarded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, and will be used to fund a technical assistance project that hopes to provide more support, funding and training opportunities to street papers globally, allowing them to offer a wider range of services.

INSP has succeeded in winning an Innovate UK Catalyst Award

The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) has been confirmed as a new member of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), the biggest global community of media development and journalism support organisations.

INSP joins the Global Forum for Media Development 

The war was already over when Apropos vendor in Edi Binder was born in 1947 in Hainfeld in Lower Austria – but its aftermath left deep marks on his life.

Edi Binder on growing up in the shadow of war

Curator Rebecka Domig from the Kornhausforum in Bern, Switzerland, shares her experience working on a subject that is barely understood in its entirety and yet is not marginalised.


How do you create an exhibition about street papers? 

Graduate psychologist Orsolya Pesthy shares her experience

Entrant psychologists help people experiencing homelessness in Hungary

“Inexistent”, “not recognized”, “associated with risk” – the sexuality of marginalized individuals is often viewed through the lens of STIs and physical safety, explains Philippe-Benoit Côté, a researcher at the Montreal Research Center on Social Inequalities and a sexology professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal. But this does not tell the full story.

Sexuality and homelessness in Montreal, Canada

People experiencing homelessness in Grants Pass, Oregon, US say that it is impossible to avoid being punished for having nowhere to live. Now, their case is going before the Supreme Court. Local street paper Street Roots reports.

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

Senior Australian of the Year, Yalmay Yunupinu, spent 40 years teaching children in their own Yolnu language in north-east Arnhem Land. It was a journey of determination, defiance and, occasionally, some Dr Seuss. She told The Big Issue Australia more.

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