Housing Office Winds Up Work Begun Year Ago, Preparing Close

With no backlog of unfilled applications now on file, and only a small number of new married veterans anticipated in the coming registration, the Straus Hall Housing Office will close its doors sometime in March, Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president disclosed yesterday.

The Office, set up just a year ago to find housing for the unprecedented number of married men returning to College at the end of the war, has all but finished its assigned job, Reynolds said.

He said that at the present time only half of the 386-unit Harvardevens Village project was filled, with virtually all of the FPHA-sponsored conversion work completed. After next term, he estimated, about 100 family spaces will not be occupied by Harvard students.

According to Reynolds, the possibility exists that the FPHA will attempt to reposses the vacant units. Several plans are now under consideration by University officials, he said, to forestall such a move, but no details are available at the present time.