Additional security, more case management services, and an improved program to monitor guests should be added to the Windsor Pointe low-income housing project, Carlsbad City Council members said Tuesday. Crime, drugs, public disturbances and other problems reported at Windsor Pointe's two downtown Barrio locations have ignited concerns among many neighborhood residents, and some want the facilities closed or moved.
The City Council heard a report on the situation Tuesday and agreed to request changes. Part of the problem is that when the City Council first approved the project in 2017 it was to be only for low-income and homeless veterans, said Mayor Keith Blackburn. Later, in 2020, the developer, Affirmed Housing, secured a $10 million, zero-interest construction loan from San Diego County's No Place Like Home program that required the project to include housing for people with severe mental illnes