Real Change is a weekly progressive street newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA written by professional staff and sold by self-employed vendors, many of whom are homeless.

[4] In February 2005, Real Change began publishing weekly due to increasing interest and sales,[4] making it the second street newspaper in the country to do so.

[note 1] In addition to becoming a weekly newspaper, it hired several professional journalists shifting its focus to become a broadly progressive alternative paper.

[10] As of 2017, it has a yearly circulation of 550,000 copies and sales account for 30 percent of the $1.2 million budget; beginning in 2019, vendors are able to take payment using the Venmo app.

[11] The topics covered in Real Change are a mixture of progressive local news and information specifically pertaining to the homeless and poor.

[13][14][15] Part of the reason for the paper becoming a weekly publication in 2005 was to attract more readers and move the newspaper's image from a "charity buy" to a legitimate source of news.