Word: fpha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, in surprising amounts, was forthcoming. The administration, after early prodding from student opinion, assumed its responsibilities and moved fast. They quickly set up a central housing office, ordered and set up 198 FPHA family dwellings, rented a Boston hotel, and made extensive further plans that roam on into the fantastic...
...steps were taken immediately. First, orders were placed with the Government for 198 FPHA single-family units. These low-cost developments were aimed principally at the familied veteran, and have been rented only to couples with children (highest priorities going to the pair with the most offspring) since the first 60 units opened on the Jarvis Field April 22. At present all but 72 of these apartments are occupied...
Quonset huts, which the University has so far managed to avoid in favor of the more satisfactory FPHA units, will bear the burden of Yale's load of married students. An even 100 of these huts, housing 200 families, will reportedly be ready for occupancy at the end of their current term, while such space as that in Ray Tompkins House of the Yale A. A. normally used to house visiting athletic teams, is slated to be utilized in the emergency, by single students, for whom Yale is also attempting to obtain Army barracks...
...this issue, however, officials of the administration stole the ball and ran it down the field. After setting up a central office in Straus Hall they ordered, received, and rapidly set up 198 FPHA family units which are already partially occupied. They have also leased the Brunswick Hotel in Boston for housing in the fall, applied for a Fort Devens area for married veterans' homes, requested 900 additional units from the FPHA, ordered 50 per cent increase in capacity of the Houses, and laid plans for Graduate dining halls...
...other hand, buildings at Fort Devens converted at federal expense under FPHA authority will have to be reconverted for the War Department with an unestimated amount of special University funds...