Operation
Each vendor pays 25 cents for each copy of the paper, then sells it on the streets for US$1. As a result, the vendor makes a 75-cent profit for each newspaper sold.
There are approximately 100 active vendors in the greater Boston area at any one time.
The biweekly, 16-page paper contains a color front and back page, alternative news, arts features, interviews, fiction and poetry that are written by staff writers and journalists, as well as by people who are homeless or work with the homeless. A full page is devoted to listings of local centers for job/skills training, senior care, women's care, drug recovery programs and homeless shelters.
Circulation is roughly 10,000 per issue. HEP/SCN rely on grants and donations to publish the newspaper, but the organization works to increase its advertising revenue to become self-sufficient.
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