First Temporary Houses Open for Married Veterans

Sixty married veterans and their families will begin moving into the University's first postwar temporary housing project Monday afternoon at Jarvis Field, it was announced today by the veterans' housing office in Straus Hall.

Long-awaited by the married ex-servicemen here, the housing ready for occupancy Monday will be followed shortly by the opening of 138 other units. Construction began last January upon transfer of the structures from a South Portland, Maine, defense housing settlement by the Federal Public Housing Authority. Additional housing has been requested from the FPHA to accommodate the influx of married veteran students expected during the summer and fall.

With Children Only

Tenants of the new homes were selected by the Straus Hall office from a list of early applicants. Only veterans with children can be placed in the new housing, in accordance with an FPHA ruling that "maximum utilization of available accommodations be obtained."

Each unit in the new project provides two or three bedrooms, a living room which also serves as a dining room with a kitchen in one end, and a bathroom with stall shower. A two-burner electric plate furnishes heat for cooking, while room heating is provided by an oil burner. Two small non-electric ice-boxes are furnished to each family. Top monthly rent for a three-bedroom unit is $35, for a two-bedroom unit, $30.

"Jarvis Court" is the name given to the project to be occupied Monday. Other temporary housing is being erected as follows: units for 72 families adjacent to the Harvard Business School near the athletic field; six families at Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street; 36 families in Andover Court; six families on Francis Avenue; and 18 families on Bank Street near Western Avenue.