Street Sheet
| Type | Twice monthly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Coalition on Homelessness |
| Publisher | Coalition on Homelessness |
| Editor | Kenneth Dotson |
| Founded | December, 1989 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, U.S. |
| Official website | Street Sheet |
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[edit] In Brief
The Street Sheet is a street newspaper published and sold in San Francisco, California which focuses on the problems of homeless people in the city, and on issues of poverty and housing. Founded in December,1989, the Street Sheet is second only to the Street News as the oldest extant street newspaper in the United States and currently has the largest circulation of a street newspaper with 32,000 papers distributed monthly.
The Coalition on Homelessness publishes the newspaper, and vendors distribute the paper on the streets of San Francisco, usually in exchange for a one-dollar donation.
The millionth issue was sold in 1993.
[edit] History and Purpose
In December, 1989, the Coalition on Homelessness began publishing a 6-page newsletter, The Street Sheet, to share information with its membership and with the larger San Francisco community. For the first few months, 600 copies were printed monthly. In January, 1991 the paper moved to a tabloid format with a monthly circulation of 20,000 copies. By July, 1993, the Street Sheet celebrated the sale of 1 Million papers.
The Street Sheet has two primary goals: First, to generate income for homeless vendors. The vendors pay nothing for the papers and keep 100% of the proceeds from their sales. Second, to provide a perspective on homelessness that is not available in the mainstream media, as it is mostly written by people who have had personal experience with homelessness. As a publication of the Coalition on Homelessness, the Street Sheet also provides information on the Coalition's advocacy and other efforts ot alleviate homelessness.
[edit] Public Education
The Street Sheet educates the public on homelessness and provides a grassroots perspective on poverty and related issues that is not available from the mainstream media. By providing a fourm for homeless people to voice thier opinions and concerns, the paper destroys prevailing mythlolgy: that homeless people are lazy, ignorant, and choose to be homeless. The Street Sheet has brought a new influx of volunteers from business, government and service organizations who join the Colaition's work groups and participate in advocacy to formulate constructive solutions to homelessness in San Francisco.
[edit] References
- Torck, Danièle (2001). "Voices of Homeless People in Street Newspapers: A Cross-Cultural Exploration". Discourse and Society 12 (3): 271–392. doi:10.1177/0957926501012003005. http://das.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/371.
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