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  • INSP offers alternative to ‘Homeless Hotspots’

    STREET NEWS SERVICE March 13, 2012 Whilst technology specialists, brand experts and journalists debate the controversial ‘Homeless Hotspots’ initiative of a global ad agency, the International Network of Street Papers’ latest digital project proves that the street paper model is very much alive. Whilst technology specialists, brand experts and journalists debate the controversial ‘Homeless Hotspots’…

  • Three A.M. in Hell

    Three A.M. in Hell By Andrea S. Gereighty Blood on the table bone on the wing tonight something evil covers the sky. The moon cross cut Drips with excrement, pus. The wind slices knives serrated, through us. Dehumidifiers hum song, hymn, prayer nothing can save us terrorism stalks there. Will we be hijacked cut down…

  • Under the Cover of Night

    Jacques Fleury Spare Change News The full moon permeates the darkened street where Chiro sprints to hide under the bridge, the rolling waves of the ocean muffling the footsteps trailing behind him. Exhausted from fear and the run itself, he leans against the wall to catch his breath as the hooligans pursuing him get close…

  • Life Interrupted … Almost

    James Shearer Spare Change News I can talk about it now — the pain, the fear, the shock. All gone. On Thanksgiving night, I nearly died. Only those close to me and some within the organization knew about it. This isn’t one of those stories that you see on television — no bright lights or…

  • A Bureaucratic Limbo

    Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News Just imagine that all of a sudden you die; you find out that there may be no God. You’re thrust into a world full of drifting ghosts like yourself, all distraught because no one knows where to go. You talk to other ghosts and some of them say that…

  • Poverty in Suburbia

    Wellesley event to highlight need in wealthy communities Paula Mathieu Spare Change News Very little about the upcoming MetroWest Homelessness Forum is what one might expect. Unexpected Detail #1: It’s taking place in the tiny suburb of Wellesley, the fifth wealthiest town in Massachusetts. “What are you talking about, homelessness in Wellesley?” quips Evelyn Reading,…

  • 'Home Street Home' Worth Reading

    Chalkey Horenstein Spare Change News Georgia Saunders’ “Home Street Home: The Virginia Beach Chronicles” can be best described in one word: raw. Raw are the stories she tells about the life of a homeless person. Raw are the tensions that build when people who can’t stand each other are forced to depend on each other.…

  • Corporate Catering for a Cause

    Robert Sondak Spare Change News Pine Street Inn, the largest resource for homeless men and women in New England, has created a social enterprise catering business called iCater. iCater represents one of the two social enterprises run by the Pine Street Inn. iCater offers high-quality catered food to the Boston corporate marketplace. Boston Handyworks represents…

  • No Direction Home: When Coming Out Means Kicked Out

    By Noelle Swan Spare Change News At 16 years old, Diamond McMillion was too young to check into a shelter. As a lesbian, she felt unwelcome at home and frequently slept in an elevator shaft with three friends. “We would ring every buzzer in the building until somebody got tired of listening to it ringing…

  • 2 takes on legislative day on homelessness

    Beatrice Bell Spare Change News On February 29, 2012, I went to the Massachusetts State House for The Coalition for the Homeless’ Legislation Action Day. After my experience, I have a renewed hope in our state leaders. The event took place in the Great Hall where the Hall of Flags is located. The schedule of…

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