A homeless Salt Lake City couple have had a housing voucher for weeks but can’t find an apartment. They remain living on the street.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ron Barrett, 55, and his wife Katherine Barrett, 54, who are homeless try to stay warm in their tent from the meager heat from a ceramic pot filled with candle wax. Their cold hands are blacken by the soot rising from the burning candle on a night that temperatures dropped to 12 degrees in Salt Lake City. "It's crazy, you gotta be able to have a sense of humor," said Ron Barrett, 55, of the life circumstances that resulted in life on the streets for he and Katherine since 2017. The Barretts are trying to find housing through a Shelter Plus Care housing voucher through the Salt Lake City Housing Authority. The couple says they refuse to stay in the state's largest homeless shelter, The Road Home on Rio Grande Street, because of past threats of violence from other residents.

A homeless Salt Lake City couple have had a housing voucher for weeks but can’t find an apartment. They remain living on the street.

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