‘Green’ Homes In New Orleans Built By Brad Pitt Charity After Hurricane Katrina Are Falling Apart

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After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, actor Brad Pitt created a charity called the “Make It Right Foundation,” which built homes for those in the city’s Lower 9th Ward. The homes were supposed to be “affordable, high-quality, environmentally sustainable” and “safe,” according to the foundation’s website. But an NBC investigation has found that the homes are falling apart, and the organization has “all but disappeared.”

NBC spoke to Kamaria Allen, who purchased one of the Make It Right homes for $130,000 in 2011 but has since abandoned the house which has “mushrooms growing from its split siding” and “wooden boards propping up its sagging roof,” NBC reports.

The news outlet spoke to 11 residents (10 on the record) who said the houses are “rotting and dangerous.”

 

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[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Obviously shoddy materials.  But when you build your houses near or below water level, can you really expect much more?  That's a place I would never want to live.  Had a friend who did many rescues down there during the hurricane relief days.  Said he never owned a gun prior.  Now he has about 7 within easy reach all over his house.  Scary times, and he got to see some of the worst of humanity.