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RE: Have you heard of “THE BIG ISSUE”?
Its actually next to impossible to receive "free money" when you are homeless....Much easier to receive free money when you have an address.
I was homeless for a few years, I even had a job in that time, but I understand that peoples views are generally tunneled.
...If you wan't a more omnipresent view of things....Money is fake in the first place, and based on debt....literally...also... be sure that "free money" - which is hardly enough to live on if you mean welfare - is definitely NOT the worst thing your taxes are funding - don't believe me either, do your own research, and dive deep.
That being said, a magazine with stories chosen and/or written by the homeless, disadvantaged and ones attached to the "street life" as well as sold by that same group, would have a very positive impact.
Mostly because mainstream news (which includes your cities paper) is a wash of bullshit to distract your mind from reality, and newsworthy stories are often suppressed....like the fact that police take more time to respond to a murder than to kick a homeless person out of a 24/7 coffee shop...
I believe that one city in particular in Canada that would benefit from this is Victoria B.C.
I was homeless there for only a few moths, but I learned alot in my time their.
There was a guy from Calgary who was a good freind of mine known as "star-man" and he had a good relationship with the media, it was his plan to startup something similar. You can read about him here http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2015/09/02/operation-space-station-lifts-off-for-homeless-calgary-man.html