"I really like what Trump is saying." [View all]
When last we saw Doug Harding, he had just gone from long-term homeless person to apartment-dweller. Harding was so unaccustomed to housing that at first he pitched his tent in the bedroom and dragged the mattress in there.
The tent is now packed away in a closet.
"I kept it up for about a week and a half," he says.
Harding, 57, spent nearly three decades as a hobo nicknamed "Boy Scout," hopping freight trains and living in a tent. But in January, the Weber Housing Authority — working with the Cooperative Agreement to Benefit Homeless Individuals — helped get Harding into an apartment using something called Shelter Plus Care, a state program for the chronically homeless with disabilities. Harding's disability relates to a substance abuse problem.
Now nearly two months later, Harding is still successfully housed in the Highland Apartments. He admits it's taken some time getting used to.
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Eventually, Harding hopes his transition to upstanding member of the community includes finding an old GMC pickup truck — with a trailer — and running his own lawn-care business. But first? He's looking to exercise his civic duty for the first time in a very long time.
"I need to register to vote," Harding says. "I really like what Trump is saying."
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