The Homeless Grapevine is full of articles covering various aspects of homeless life. While reading, I discovered the paper is a project of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. About 50 percent of the stories are written by homeless people, Santa said. The homeless also help edit and proofread stories. The cost of printing the paper is about 17 cents an issue, she said.
Vendors buy so many copies of the paper for about the same amount.
It usually takes about seven weeks for vendors to sell the 10,000 copies of the newspaper that are printed, Santa said. While you won't be able to find The Homeless Grapevine in the county, you may run into a vendor on your next visit to Cleveland. You should be able to find a vendor after Cavs or Indians games, and also in the Coventry neighborhood of Cleveland Heights. But the items of the famed Russian imperial jeweler Faberge are anything but typical. I think they excite people's imaginations for those reasons.