NLV grants will help Windsor Park residents

Andy Holtmann

Friday, July 18, 1997 | 9:15 a.m.

Residents who live in Windsor Park will receive more assistance in acquiring new homes, thanks to the approval of grants up to $15,000 by the North Las Vegas City Council.

The grants would be allowed under the Windsor Park Housing Revitalization Rehabilitation Guidelines. All money that residents receive would have to be used to improve living conditions in homes that they purchase after moving out of the Windsor complex.

Windsor Park has been an ongoing nightmare for the city of North Las Vegas for a decade. Underground water tables and existing soil conditions have caused many of the homes in the area to sink into the ground. The sinking has cracked walls of buildings, uprooted floorboards, and disturbed utilities and insulation.

Residents of the complex have complained that living conditions are unbearable. Former Mayor Jim Seastrand added the Windsor Park woes to his task force of issues that needed to be addressed.

There is $250,000 currently available in this latest relief effort. If every applicant were to receive the maximum $15,000, 16 people could be served. The council hopes to ration the money out depending on the need.

Another plan in the works would give residents $50,000 each to aid in the purchasing of other homes within North Las Vegas. Council members say that because of the funding shortage they can help only a limited number of residents at a time.