Older Coloradans are turning to the “Golden Girls” housing model to fight costs, loneliness

The six-bedroom home on a shady southwest Denver street was built in the 1960s, a ranch-style with a series of connecting rooms, a kitchen skylight, and a serving window to pass food to the living room. The art covering nearly every wall falls mostly into two categories: the Old West or dogs.

Piles of books are stacked by the recliners in the living and family rooms, on the dining room table and various places on the floor. In the backyard, there’s a barbecue grill and an informal garden of peppers and pumpkins.

Glenn Little, who turns 70 soon, loves his home that’s a short walk to the path along Bear Creek. He loves that his neighbors feed his loveable lab, Huck, sliced turkey over the fence when the dog trots out to say his hellos. Little, who is divorced and retired from his career at Mission Foods, doesn’t want to sell the place. He also doesn’t want to live there alone…

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