Houston’s aging Latinos suffer from loneliness. Here’s how some built their own community to fight it

For the past eight months, instead of sitting at home watching television, 62-year-old Ricardo Cantero has hobbled into the Denver Harbor Community Center every weekday morning and forgotten about his physical ailments. He has cancer, and he relies on a cane to stay mobile. But when he plays bingo, dances and chit-chats for hours with dozens of friends at the growing community of elderly Latinos who rely on the center, he says he seems to forget...