PJA Picks Up Spare Change

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BOSTON PJA has fashioned a pro-bono campaign for Spare Change News, a Boston-area newspaper sold on the streets by, and for the benefit of, local homeless people.

The effort from PJA, Cambridge, Mass., begins appearing this month in the daily Boston Metro, and on taxi tops and transit posters. The tagline: “Each issue you buy helps house the homeless.” Executions show origami-style cutouts of objects like shirts and houses, each apparently crafted from newsprint baring headlines such as, “Cold weather kills homeless man” and “Lack of affordable housing.”

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