Among the colorful markets, historic plazas and grand cathedrals of Mexico City, there are tens of thousands of homeless people living on the streets. Many live their whole lives without ever having a place to call their own. Some are the third generation ...
25 Jan 2015 - Laura Kelly
You may know your vendor in Portland, but did you know that he or she is one of tens of thousands of vendors around the globe, working their way out of homelessness and poverty with newspapers papers just like Street Roots. Here are a few of the faces fro ...
7 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Now living in Chicago, the Scottish author talks about his new novel, homelessness and drugs By Billy Briggs, Contributing Writer Speaking to a street paper reporter during a recent outing in Edinburgh, Scotland, author Irvine Welsh described the street p ...
30 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Update from sister street paper on Nashville flooding Street Roots sister paper in Nashville — The Contributor is scrambling to help vendors and people on the streets secure safe refuge from yesterday's flooding. Over the past two days— flooding from ...
4 May 2010 - Street Roots