mango4ver blog posts

  • I am a jerk!

         I suck!  I mean I am really an asshole!  But I have a lot of reasons why I am the way I am.  Other than the fact that I was very outgoing and tried to please people before Cameron James Harris held me hostage one morning and forced me out of a moving vehicle,…

  • WTF!

         I have been in Salt Lake City now for over 12 years.  In that time, I was homeless and a majority of that time I have spent working to help the homeless community.  So, I have known more people than I can count who have frozen to death.  I’ve been in a position before…

  • How many more are we going to let suffer and die?

         A couple of years ago I considered putting something together for the people that I have known in Salt Lake City who have frozen to death.  But when I started working on it and trying to remember all the people that I have known that have frozen to death in Salt Lake City I…

  • My nightmare living in The Stratford Apartments

         I got an apartment at the Stratford after I took the cooking class that CCS offers at the Wiegand Center.  I had a good job, and I was fighting weekly infections at the Gail Miller Resource Center because I have a weakened immune system due to having HIV.  That was the worst apartment I…

  • My stories of victimization

         I don’t tell this story because I want people to hate the police, I tell this story because if the city addresses issues like this it will strengthen our local police and make us all safer and make Salt Lake City the best city in the country.  The good thing about people in Utah…

  • Utah’s homeless: by the numbers

    Utah’s rate of homelessness is 11 per 10,000 people — significantly lower than the national average, according to the report, which recently raised to 20 per 10,000 people. Additionally, 2023 saw improvement when it comes to helping people transition out of homelessness and remain housed over time. In Utah, the number of people experiencing homelessness is increasing,…

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