As seniors try to downsize, Colorado’s housing market shuts them out
By Brian Eason | Colorado Sun
Most older residents want to age in place. But experts say Colorado’s housing stock wasn’t built with their needs in mind.
Pat Malone moved to Arvada with her husband in the early 2010s for a more affordable retirement than they could have found in California.
“Or so we thought,” she said wryly.
The empty-nesters rented at first, then bought a single-family home. When the stairs became more daunting for her husband, it took them a long time to find what they needed.
A single-floor condominium, with no stairs and no garden to maintain is a unicorn in Colorado.
“We couldn’t find anything like that when we were (first) looking for a property,” said Malone, 76. “We really had no choice but to buy a house.”
Seniors like Malone make up Colo...