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Executive order establishes the Resettlement Administration

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Resettlement Administration to relocate struggling rural and urban families and to promote planned communities and soil-conservation projects.

Executive order establishes the Resettlement Administration

The Resettlement Administration marked a major New Deal effort to address rural poverty and land-use problems through federal planning and subsidies, later influencing the Farm Security Administration and federal housing policy.

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