AVC Seeking Way to Solve Housing Need

An expanded program to discover suitable housing for married students at the University was announced last night by the Housing Committee of the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee, as meagre results of the committee's first efforts highlighted the continuing need for living quarters.

Summarizing the five-day registration drive conducted at the University Theatre in conjunction with the showing of a special AVC film on veterans' housing needs, Housing Committee Chairman Andrew E. Rice '43 1G reported that only four units suitable for married couples were unearthed. "These figures indicate," Rice said, "how critical the housing shortage remains in the Cambridge area."

Emphasis on Quick Changes

New efforts of the committee will center on reaching directly all married students living outside Harvard-operated projects so that the space they occupy can be made immediately available, upon their departure from Cambridge, to incoming couples.

Jointly sponsored by the Harvard AVC and the Cambridge city AVC group, the theatre registration drive had been planned on a model of a similar successful undertaking in Pittsburgh where over a hundred dwelling units were uncovered.

Lobby at the U. T.

Full cooperation was given by the management of the University Theatre in screening the film, and the lobby booth was manned by AVC members of both chapters as well as by volunteers from the Radcliffe League for Democracy.

In addition to registering vacant space, information was distributed concerning remodelling dwellings and converting unused space into housekeeping units.