Real Change
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Real Change is a weekly street newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA, with an unusual distribution model. It is sold exclusively by members of the local homeless community, providing them an alternative to panhandling.
Real Change has been published by the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project since 1994. Vendors get the first 10 papers free when they sign up; after that they keep 65 cents for every dollar paper they sell. Founder Timothy Harris previously founded the Spare Change homeless newspaper in the Boston area in 1992. Both are similar to Chicago's StreetWise and New York City's BIGNews, the UK-based The Big Issue, and other such papers.
[edit] External links
- Real Change News Homepage
- Real Change article on SeattleWiki
- Real Change Wikispace
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