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The Resettlement Administration (RA) (April 1935) was the brainchild of Rexford G. Tugwell, an economics professor at Columbia University who became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the latter's campaign for the presidency in 1932. Tugwell, who held positions in the United States Department of Agriculture, convinced Roosevelt to form an agency that would relocate struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. Roosevelt established the RA with Executive Order 7027 in 1935 and Tugwell became its first and only head. The RA operated through the end of 1936, when, due to Congressional criticism, it was folded into a new body, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which operated from 1937 to 1942.
   The most lasting achievements of the Resettlement Administration, though it worked with nearly 200 communities, are the three green towns and the FSA photography project. The former were three new towns (Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; Greendale, Wisconsin) completely planned and constructed by the RA outside Washington, D.C.; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, respectively.
   The administration funded two projects: the photography project documented the rural poverty of the Great Depression and produced thousands of images now stored and available at the Library of Congress; the film project produced two documentaries by Pare Lorentz about farm life.
   List of Resettlement Administration Projects:

Cahaba Village in Trussville, Alabama, begun by the Works Progress Administration
Greenbelt, Maryland
Greenbrook, New Jersey (never built)
Greendale, Wisconsin
Greenhills, Ohio
Jersey Homesteads - begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads
Hickory Ridge, Virginia (now Prince William Forest Park)

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