Homeless on Vice

Austerity's Drug of Choice

Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People

Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of economic collapse. Full story

Power Moves by Karl Welzein

How to Keep It Chillin' Successfully When You're Livin' in Your Car

I been livin’ in my car for over a week now, and I gotta say, I’ve never felt more productive or alive. Bein’ on the go 24/7, 365, open on Sundays, just lends itself to as much innovation and opportunities for success as the mind can ponder. Full story

Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside of You

My friend Lorian is a social worker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a neighborhood containing seven of the ten most violent crime plots in the city. Homelessness, public drug use, and prostitution are said to be as common there as the liquor stores and strip clubs lining the stree… Full story

Taji’s Mahal - The Life of an Outdoor Artist

For this week's Mahal, we met back up with outdoor artist Anthony Dominguez to see how he lives and practices his art. We started at the 42nd Street Library, where Anthony spends most of his days creating his work, unwelcomed, but tolerated. Full story

Giles Clarke Ventures into the Neon Underground

In February, award-winning photographer Giles Clarke did a trip through the Las Vegas storm tunnels with Matthew O'Brien, an author and journalist who has lived in Las Vegas since 1997. We have the photos to prove it. Full story

The Big-City Communes of Barca

Since social services are scant, hippies and punk rockers have stepped in to provide for Barca’s swelling population of working-class homeless people. Full story

Dos & Don'ts

News flash! Blondes DO have more fun. Full story

Bum Rush the World Cup

America's Homeless Soccer Captain

Exploiting people in the name of sport is the finest exploitation of all. Full story

Ticket To Ride

Who Says the Lottery is a Bummer?

State lotteries love people with a hopeless attitude and who could be more hopeless than the homeless? Full story

Gimme Shelter

Sensational Don't Need No Home, Boy

Ever since he's been living on the street, things have been going great for rapper Sensational. "Now things is getting incorporated, things is getting upgraded," he says. "From Pumas to Bentleys, from gold to platinum, diamonds. Y'know what I'm saying?" Full story