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Creation of the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order

Roosevelt issued an executive order establishing the Resettlement Administration to assist poor rural and urban families through relocation, subsistence homesteads, and community planning.

Creation of the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order

As part of the Second New Deal, the Resettlement Administration represented a federal effort to combat rural poverty and experiment with planned resettlement, later evolving into the Farm Security Administration.

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