Brian Augustine, who sells Colorado street paper the Denver VOICE, writes for the latest in INSP’s Housing for the People series about how happenstance, and events outside his control, led to him losing the place he called home. Now, he counts the street paper as his home, and the people who come by his place of work as his family.

Housing for the People: “Until I can make my dream happen…”

For the latest instalment of INSP’s ‘Housing for the People’ column, Denver VOICE contributor Larmarques ‘Misha’ Smith writes about their journey from temporary to stable housing, their experience of shlters throughout the pandemic, and how ensuring housing is a right enjoyed by all should be done intersectionally with multiple goals in mind.

Housing for the People: “We have to go beyond people just attaining housing”

Iso Numero's Enkete Mungbaba. Credit: Janne Hukka.

Everyone who is a part of the global street paper network knows what a street paper is – that extends to the staff that put each publication together and those who buy them. But the people who truly know what a street paper is – what it means – are those who sell them. Here, a collection of street paper vendors – from Brazil to Finland – tell us, in their own words, what a street paper is, personally to them.

“Street papers have a sort of superpower” – what street papers are in the words of those who sell them

Cheryl Osorio tells her son Jesus to turn the lights off to her home. Osorio and her family live in a house with no running water and which isn't connected to the power grid. Osorio uses a generator to power her house when needed. She uses her wood stove to cook and purify her water. This photo was part of a story about how Covid-19 had affected the Navajo community, and was published in street paper the Denver VOICE. Credit: Giles Clasen

Photographer Giles Clasen has been taking pictures for Colorado, USA street paper the Denver VOICE for about 15 years. Here, he discusses his approach to photographing vulnerable subjects, and how the opportunity to work with the street paper gave him purpose when a Traumatic Brain Injury left him unable to work.

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Housing for the People: “Until I can make my dream happen…”

Housing for the People: “We have to go beyond people just attaining housing”

“Street papers have a sort of superpower” – what street papers are in the words of those who sell them

Q&A: Denver VOICE photographer Giles Clasen on using images to change perceptions