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Mother of missing Utah man credits the unsheltered community with aiding son’s survival.

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Miss: Taking Shelter You may have missed a kind of Christmas story involving Utah’s unhoused community. A nonverbal autistic man who’d been missing for 24 days was found after moving among the homeless. “It is almost certain that people who have very little themselves stepped forward to help him survive,” his mother told The Salt Lake Tribune .

Those people had better be vigilant as the government is coming after many of them. Gov. Spencer Cox wants to force homeless addicts into a barracks-like camp on the west side.

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