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Person in a wheelchair experiencing street homelessness outside US subway station

16 October 2025

US National Alliance to End Homelessness sues government for grant restrictions

Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy graduates, with Mike Findlay-Agnew and Mairi Damer.

13 October 2025

First participants graduate from journalism training academy

16 September 2025

SOS: The size of stigma

15 September 2025

Secret relationship leads to tragedy

14 September 2025

Broken spines, but not spineless: a story of self-discovery

13 September 2025

The power of psychedelics: an alternative approach to recovery

12 September 2025

Making a living: the pros and cons of work and lived experience

11 September 2025

Taps aff – Scotland’s surprise water shortage

10 September 2025

Housebuilding or saving the planet? Solving one crisis by fuelling another

09 September 2025

Everyday racism in Glasgow

08 September 2025

Handle with care: the risks involved with lived experience

Authorities close an encampment in D.C. on President Trump's orders

20 August 2025

New executive order could reshape US response to homelessness

13 August 2025

“It’s not all chocolate and cuckoo clocks”: inside the Swiss Association for Addiction

L'Itinéraire writing workshop participants

06 August 2025

Writing workshops by and for L'Itinéraire vendors

30 July 2025

Locked out: inside Switzerland’s migrant accommodation

29 July 2025

For Denver VOICE vendor Halvin Jones, survival means walking all night

28 July 2025

Meet Liceulice vendor Radmila Slavujevic

18 July 2025

Residents at DC’s last operating migrant shelter told to leave

A homeless encampment on the streets of downtown Los Angeles

02 July 2025

Homeless Beat Reporters Collective creates first guide to covering homelessness

01 July 2025

In Britain, you can be made a criminal just for being poor

24 June 2025

“My journey back began at a shelter in Texas…”

18 June 2025

A vendor for the day

11 June 2025

Inside Australia’s criminalisation of rough sleeping

Former Missouri Democratic representative Cori Bush addresses the rally

04 June 2025

One year after SCOTUS decision allowing cities to criminalise sleeping in public, rallies call attention to cuts in homelessness services

27 May 2025

More than medicine: poverty in the emergency room

Biel, Switzerland. Photo by Miguel Lindo. Sourced by INSP

23 May 2025

“They act as if we don’t exist”: Switzerland’s in-work poverty rises

Marisa Debattista feeding a surrendered kitten,

12 May 2025

Pet project: inside Australia’s pet food pantries

01 May 2025

INSP launches Journalism Training Academy

Front cover of Hobo News shows a man looking at the Statue of Liberty with the caption: "Say Miss! Do You Know Where I Can Get A Job!"

23 April 2025

Hobo News: the first street paper?

man in grey jacket standing with street paper and smiling

22 April 2025

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

black and white photo of a tree in a park

07 April 2025

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

a group of young girls singing on a stage

26 March 2025

Inside Serbia’s girls-only rock camp

a woman in a white poncho stand smiling with hand on hip

24 March 2025

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

an elderly woman cooking in a small kitchen

19 March 2025

Familial love transcends homelessness

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

17 March 2025

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

group of people chatting with Pride flags wrapped around their shoulders

12 March 2025

In Conversation with Sebastian Rocca: Micro Rainbow

a black and white photo of a woman facing the camera with her fist raised

11 March 2025

She Matters: fighting Australia’s femicide crisis

a picture of two men handing out trump merchandise

03 March 2025

What the Trump administration means for Americans experiencing homelessness

26 February 2025

INSP seeks participants to Change the Narrative on Homelessness

two men sitting in armchairs at a table, drinking coffee and chatting

24 February 2025

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

a woman in an orange top leans against a green wall with her hair blowing in the wind

19 February 2025

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

17 February 2025

Street paper news service bolstered by professional memberships

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

12 February 2025

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

a woman sits at a kitchen table inside a small apartment

10 February 2025

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

06 February 2025

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

a woman with her hand on her hip stands facing the camera with her hand on her hip, in front of a bright mural

05 February 2025

Meet Ruth, The Big Issue Australia vendor in Adelaide

a black and white photo of a woman wearing glasses

25 February 2025

Homeless on the doorstep of EU

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

29 January 2025

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

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

28 January 2025

Alamosa’s sanctioned camp takes care of its people

three people sitting on armchairs in conversation

21 January 2025

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

black and white photo of a woman walking down a street, past a sign that says 'respekt'

21 January 2025

We can no longer afford the rich

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

15 January 2025

Workplace discrimination leads to exploitation of Serbian women in Germany

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

13 January 2025

Meet Faktum vendor Lisandro

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

08 January 2025

Surgery on the street

cartoon graphic of a man falling off a cliff

06 January 2025

How the “benefits cliff” traps people in poverty

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

16 December 2024

Brian Halley: Designing the homeless tartan

16 December 2024

Romy St John: Changing the narrative in literature

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

16 December 2024

Judi Alston on breaking down barriers with technology

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

02 December 2024

INSP turns 30

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

10 October 2024

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

02 October 2024

INSP Awards 2024: shortlists and winners

01 August 2024

INSP Awards 2024- Best Cover

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

08 January 2024

Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

03 July 2024

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

11 June 2024

INSP joins the Global Forum for Media Development

31 May 2024

Edi Binder on growing up in the shadow of war

Exhibition on street papers in Bern, Switzerland

20 May 2024

How do you create an exhibition about street papers?

15 April 2024

Entrant psychologists help people experiencing homelessness in Hungary

Two people lie together in sleeping bags in the snow

09 April 2024

Sexuality and homelessness in Montreal, Canada

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

05 April 2024

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

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

18 March 2024

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

14 March 2024

Meet Liceulice vendor Stefan Gogov

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

27 February 2024

How Finland succeeded in reducing homelessness

20 February 2024

Arts & Homelessness International Award winners announced

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

19 February 2024

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

14 February 2024

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

UK Poverty 2024 /Joseph Rowntree Foundation

25 January 2024

INSP responds to UK Poverty report

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

23 January 2024

Journalism in the year 2024

08 January 2024

Global Street Paper Summit confirmed for Liverpool in 2024

05 January 2024

Meet Traços vendor Thifany Branco

The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

29 December 2023

The never-ending story of Faktum vendor Bertil Schöneman

04 June 2025

One year after SCOTUS decision allowing cities to criminalise sleeping in public, rallies call attention to cuts in homelessness services

27 October 2023

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

Arts & Homelessness International Awards

24 October 2023

New Arts and Homelessness International Awards launched

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.

13 June 2023

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

Report on Scottish Social Enterprises impact

23 October 2023

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

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

03 July 2023

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

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

27 June 2023

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

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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.

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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

Credit: Nicole Reed/Big Issue Australia

Changing perceptions

Iso Numero

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

Woman wearing a blue vest and handing out Liceulice street paper in Serbia

Credit: Liceulice

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