“Sanctioned camping is a win-win-win that protects our most vulnerable people, unites our community to help and is the first step to a better tomorrow.”
People camping on the block on 500 West pack up their belongings before the Rapid Intervention Team moves in to scoop it into the dumpster, on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.It’s the summer of 2012: I am 24 years old. Desperate for a better life, I move to Salt Lake City, fitting whatever I can into my small car. I have no money, nothing for an apartment, nothing for a deposit.
Eleven years later, I am grateful to now be housed, have a job and own my own business that I adore as a community organizer and director of nonprofits fighting for the public. I’m a student at the great University of Utah and a filmmaker passionate about a world of endless creative possibilities. Now, a decade later, I continue to be grateful and humble that I found my home and am now running to serve the community as the next mayor of Salt Lake City. I believe I may be the only candidate in Utah running for any office who has personally been homeless, who has a deep, fundamental understanding of what it feels like to sleep in a public park, to be so exhausted with nowhere to go, to experience the intense feelings of loneliness and otherness that being homeless brings.
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