The paper went online-only back in March due to the pandemic.

The paper provides 130 vendors with an average income of $780 a month.

The hope is that it will catch on with similar papers around the world, which have seen declines in sales as people increasingly go cashless.

“I said, ‘Tell me a story about heartbreak,'” an organizer said. “People really opened up and they were open to this idea.”

Ten homeless people will gather near the Farragut West Metro station from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow to hand out information about Voolla.

City Desk recently ran an item about how Street Sense, D.C.’s homeless newspaper, was one of the only local publications thriving during the recession. As a volunteer member of the board of directors of Street Sense, the piece made me cringe just a little bit, even though I get what reporter Chris Lewis was trying to say: more and more people are turning to jobs selling the paper, so circulation is up. But make…

If you’re a regular customer of Street Sense, D.C.’s only homeless newspaper, but have been frustrated over the years with its lackluster online offerings, be sure to check out the paper’s recently redesigned web site, StreetSense.org. (Full disclosure: I’m a volunteer member of the board of directors of Street Sense, and consulted just a little bit on the design process of this site). The new site, designed by CITI, offers regularly updated Street Sense…

Since 2003, D.C. residents have been able to pick up a copy of the now bi-monthly newspaper Street Sense from a local vendor for a dollar. Inside, one finds in-depth reporting on issues of homelessness and poverty, profiles of vendors — members of the homeless who make 75 cents off every paper sold — information on services by shelters, veterans groups and other organizations, book reviews (the current issue tackles John Edwards’ Ending Poverty in…

Via City Desk, the excellent homeless publication Street Sense scooped everyone on a big story about the potential closing of the District’s largest family shelter, D.C. Village Family Emergency Shelter in southwest Washington. Under a new city proposal, the shelter could close sometime this fall, to be replaced by a bus operations center for WMATA in advance of the opening of the new Nationals stadium. From Street Sense: …more than 350 … people – mothers,…

Hope you didn’t stay up too late debating the President’s speech with friends last night, Washington. We stayed up a bit past our bedtimes ourselves, mostly pondering the rhetorical significance of the difference between the phrases “mistakes were made”, and “where mistakes have been made”. Either way, we take full responsibility for any mistakes that were/have been made in this morning roundup, which was completed with the known unknown of the amount of sleep we…