''Faktum'' is a

street newspaper Street newspapers (or street papers) are newspapers or magazines sold by homeless or poor individuals and produced mainly to support these populations. Most such newspapers primarily provide coverage about homelessness and poverty-related is ...

sold by

homeless people Homelessness or houselessness – also known as a state of being unhoused or unsheltered – is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and adequate housing. People can be categorized as homeless if they are: * living on the streets, also kn ...

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

and other cities in southern Sweden. It is the equivalent of ''

Situation Sthlm ''Situation Sthlm'' is a street newspaper sold by homeless people in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1995, and was Sweden's only street newspaper until ''Faktum'' and ''Aluma Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav i ...

'' in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, ''

Aluma Aluma ( he, אֲלֻמָּה or , ''lit.'' Sheaf) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a po ...

'' in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

, and ''

The Big Issue ''The Big Issue'' is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. ''The Big Issue'' is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or indivi ...

'' in English-speaking countries. The paper was founded in 2001. In 2006 it was awarded the grand prize of the

Swedish Publicists' Association The Swedish Publicists' Association (Swedish: ''Publicistklubben'') is a Swedish organisation devoted to promoting freedom of the press and free speech in journalism. The Association was founded in Stockholm in 1874 and today it has approximately ...

(''Publicistklubben'') together with its sister papers ''

'' and ''

''.

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* (archived) Street newspapers Newspapers published in Sweden Mass media in Gothenburg 2001 establishments in Sweden Publications established in 2001 Monthly newspapers {{Street newspapers

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