Real Change

Real Change Newspaper is the top street newspaper in North America, offering job opportunities to around 800 individuals experiencing homelessness and those with low incomes each year. This weekly community newspaper, which champions progressive values, received sixteen first-place awards for outstanding journalism in 2014 from both the Washington Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. Real Change addresses important topics related to economic, social, and racial justice. To stay connected with the needs of our vendors, we have a weekly editorial committee made up of homeless and formerly homeless individuals who gather to discuss our content.

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“Art is inside of us:”

1 week ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

Wa Na Wari’s art and community space is filled this month with intricate pieces made by incarcerated members of the Black Prisoners Caucus (BPC). The sound of a distorted voice pulls me up the stairs of the gallery that lives inside the Central District craftsman house. I follow the voice up the stairs, into a pink room that is empty except for a brown leather bench and TV perched high in the corner, framed by lush green trees growing outside the windows.
Artist Kimisha Turner reflects on repainting Seattle Black Lives Matter Mural and the future for Black artists in America

1 week ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

It’s a significant year for Kimisha Turner, an artist known for her intricate and thought-provoking artwork, as this is the fifth year since she and other local artists created the Black Lives Matter mural in Capitol Hill. Turner was among many artists from the Vivid Matter Collective, an artist organization based in Seattle, who created the vivid statement while demonstrations took place around them in 2020.
Revolution is relationship

2 weeks ago | realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd

In February 2024, I testified at the state legislature as a child trafficking survivor in support of the Strippers Bill of Rights to help repeal discriminatory laws that made performers in Washington more vulnerable to being exploited. I highlighted the importance of passing the bill after the Stonewall-reminiscent raids on gay clubs in Capitol Hill just two weeks earlier in January 2024 — a raid that was legally justified by the very same “lewd laws” that strip clubs also fell under.
King County honors 400 people who passed away with no one to bury them

2 weeks ago | realchangenews.org | Guy Oron

On June 4, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office (KCMEO) held a memorial ceremony for 405 people who have passed away in the county and had not received a proper burial. Dozens of mourners, including county officials, religious leaders, human service providers and concerned community members, gathered at Mt. Olivet cemetery in Renton to grieve the deceased and offer prayers.
June is a Pride fashion runway, and we’re just getting started

2 weeks ago | realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd

June in Seattle brings sun, fun and daring fashions. While many choose to play it safe with an off-the-rack mesh top or hand-cut jean shorts, Pride serves as the perfect runway for some of Seattle’s most intrepid fashionistas. Real Change interviewed a few of them at the June 7 Pride in the Park festival about their couture creations, makeup tips, inspirations and how they got their stage names.
Cathy Moore withdraws bill to weaken ethics code, announces shock resignation

3 weeks ago | realchangenews.org | Guy Oron

On May 30, Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore announced she would be withdrawing a proposed ordinance that would have weakened the city’s ethics code following vocal backlash from constituents. Her bill would have dropped the requirements for council members to recuse themselves from voting on legislation in which they have a vested financial interest and could benefit or lose from. Moore’s proposal instead just required disclosure of potential conflicts of interest.
Access Denied: Affordability, density and neighborhood character

3 weeks ago | realchangenews.org | Hanna Brooks Olsen

Riding my bike around my Portland neighborhood, I pass a number of new homes for sale just around the corner. But unlike when I lived in Seattle, where new construction has been synonymous with single-family “McMansions” selling for millions, these are relatively affordable. According to Redfin, these Portland homes are listed between $350,000 and $550,000, which makes them “starter homes.” You remember the concept of starter homes, don’t you?
The defund that wasn’t: Tracing the legacy of 2020 in Seattle

1 month ago | realchangenews.org | Guy Oron

Five years ago, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The COVID-19 pandemic rendered millions of people unemployed, forced to rely on benefits from the state. Many began to rethink how society should work, including the role of work, the government and community. Discontent with the vast inequities that define the U.S. was bubbling. The shocking murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin set it all ablaze.
“These are things that are possible:” National Homelessness Law Center founder Maria Foscarinis on her new book “And Housing For All”

1 month ago | realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd

In the mid-1980s, Maria Foscarinis left her job as a litigator at a large corporate law firm after volunteering to represent pro bono cases and advocate for homeless families. She led the effort to pass the first federal legislation to help protect the rights of unhoused people and, in 1989, founded the National Homelessness Law Center.
From the page to the stage: How some of Seattle’s celebrated memoirists craft autobiographical plays

1 month ago | realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd

Seattle is a city of writers. Some of the most celebrated memoir writers in the world live here. And many of those writers are also playwrights. Which came first for these memoirist playwrights? The book or the play? Did the writing process begin with painfully awkward memoir workshops, like when I read aloud to strangers in a harshly lit conference room and a man said, “That’s not how women talk,” when I quoted my own self in my own draft?