Carl Mydans' main projects for the Resettlement Administration dealt with photographing urban and residential development and the impoverished dwellings they were replacing. Mydans captured these two children outside their tenement somewhere amidst the shadows of the Capitol. Although new "greenbelt towns"—government-sponsored planned communities—were being developed in suburbs to relieve housing shortages, living conditions in most areas were below average.
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