Franca Fischer works as an emergency care nurse in Stuttgart, Germany. She told local street paper Trott-war about supporting patients experiencing homelessness and poverty: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

One year ago, the US Supreme Court allowed cities to criminalise sleeping in public. On 22 April, homelessness advocates gathered outside the Capitol to call attention to what is now a worsening crisis. Street Sense Media reported from the ground: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

If everyone has the right to safe and secure housing in Australia, what do you do when you have no place left to go? The Big Issue Australia investigated what happens when rough sleeping becomes a crime – and asks if there’s a kinder way forward: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

Three people, who all have other jobs, sold Swiss street paper Surprise for a day. Here’s what they found out: insp.ngo/articles/stree…

Kenneth Henry is a writer in The Stewpot Writers’ Workshop in Dallas, Texas, US, run by local street paper STREETZine. He spoke about his journey out of extreme depression and into housing: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

The Georgian Vagrancy Act, signed into law in 1824, effectively criminalises homelessness. It is set to be repealed by spring 2026 – but the damage is already done, says Paul Atherton: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

If you've not read my piece for the International Network of Street Papers and Mike Findlay-Agnew FRSA 📚✍🏳️‍🌈 on the Georgian Vagrancy Act, please do. It's about time Britain started leading the world in new, good ideas again. Best Paul Atherton FRSA The RSA

There has never been a more important time for journalists to cover homelessness. But telling these stories can feel daunting. That’s why the Homelessness Beat Reporters Collective created its Homelessness Reporting Guide - the first of its kind in the US: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

Families living at DC’s last city-funded migrant shelter, Harbor Light Center, have been told that they must find somewhere else to go by the end of the summer, leaving many facing homelessness. Local street paper Street Sense Media reports: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

Radmila Slavujevic sells liceulice in Novi Sad, the centre of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. She says that being a street paper vendor helps her to live more decently, and she also enjoys the opportunity to be active and meet new people: insp.ngo/articles/vendo…

Each night, as most of Denver sleeps, Denver VOICE vendor Halvin Jones wanders the streets, always moving: insp.ngo/articles/vendo…

In the Swiss canton of Schwyz, rejected asylum seekers are locked out of the Kaltbach accommodation centre during the day, even if they are sick or it is snowing outside. But the residents are fighting back. Local street paper Surprise reports: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

Writer and L'Itinéraire vendor Agathe Melançon recently shared her love of words by leading a writing workshop for fellow street paper vendors, employees, and participants in professional integration programmes: insp.ngo/articles/stree…

A harm reduction activist resists the usual tropes of the addiction memoir. Courtesy of our partners at International Network of Street Papers streetsheet.org/garth-mullins-…

With its mix of liberal attitudes and firm enforcement, Zurich is regarded as a model of drug policy. German street paper Hinz&Kunzt spoke with Jonas Wenger of the Swiss Association for Addiction about challenges and what other countries can learn: insp.ngo/articles/lived…

On 11 August, President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to “remove” homeless encampments in DC. Now, a new executive order could change how the US responds to homelessness. Local street paper Street Sense Media reports: insp.ngo/articles/news-…

A change in housing status does not necessarily erase trauma, this writer says. Courtesy of International Network of Street Papers. streetsheet.org/survivors-guil…