Resettlement Administration

Resettlement Administration
	; Resettlement Administration poster by Bernarda Bryson Shahn (c. 1936)
Agency overview
Formed	May 1, 1935
Preceding	Subsistence Homesteads Division (DSH or SHD), United States Department of the Interior;
Dissolved	September 1, 1937
Superseding agency	Farm Security Administration;
Agency executive	Rexford G. Tugwell, Head;

The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935. It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. On September 1, 1937, it was succeeded by the Farm Security Administration.

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