Brad Pitt Builds 109 'futuristic' Homes For Homeless In NO

[FrederickDouglas]

Ok, Brad Pitt deserves props for this, sure.

But let's not get carried away.

4% of Americans are millionaires.

And of that small percentage, 76% are white.

So before you start attacking fellow Coli posters for not doing what Brad Pitt does, think about how the system works.

And before you start attacking the relatively few black millionaires, think of ALL the white millionaires who could be doing what Brad is doing and aren't.

So while Brad Pitt is doing the right thing, he's not the Messiah. He's the result of a corrupt system that pretty much requires outside help for the black community to get a leg up

 

[Mac Brown]

Ms. Gladys is my grandma's name....

RIP granny....

Is Baby yo uncle or Pappy?

 

[duncanthetall]

I'd quote the whole story but I'm on mobile and can't get the link for some reason

Spoiler

In response to the floundering recovery effort, Brad Pitt, the Hollywood star, set up his own charity, the Make it Right foundation in 2007, pledging to build 150 new sustainable, flood-proof houses for those displaced from the Lower Ninth Ward. Pitt’s scheme allowed residents, many of whom had little or no insurance, to pay what they could and take out zero-interest loans to cover the rest.

But his well-meaning plan has seemingly fallen foul of its own grandiose ambitions.

Nearly a decade on, the foundation has spent $26.8 million on construction and completed 109 homes.

And despite high-profile celebrity backing and Hollywood fundraising galas, it is struggling to finance the remainder. In a further setback many of the homes already built have begun rotting.

“It’s just not a great solution to affordable housing issues,” says Laura Paul, of charity Lower Nine, which organizes volunteer labour and donations to help former residents in the district rehabilitate their homes.

“If I had that money, I could run my organisation, at its current capacity, for 170 years.”

Pitt’s futuristic pink, blue and green-painted solar-panelled homes – designed by world-renowned architects including Frank Gehry – today stand incongruously in their Deep South surroundings among the boarded-up, weed-choked bungalows.

Vanessa Rogers, 57, says her stairs and floorboards had to be replaced because of decay.

“A lot of it got rotten really fast,” the mother-of-two said. “It got so bad, I fell down the stairs. All the back porch and the deck’s got to be replaced, up and down. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done because of the kind of wood it is. It’s really bad.”

Make It Right say they were supplied defective “glass-infused” wood by the company TimberSIL, claiming it was unable to withstand the humid Louisiana climate. Almost all of the 39 homes built using the wood between 2008 and 2010 are said to already be displaying signs of rot and damp, despite the company’s
40-year guarantee.

Pitt’s foundation is now suing the company for $500,000 – the cost of the replacement wood.

“We’ve been here almost three years now,” says Mrs Rogers’s neighbour, Michael Burns. “I’m now in the process of treating it myself.

“The storm is one thing, but then keeping everything together is a whole other storm in itself.”

Hopefully they replaced that wood. A quick Google search shows that they're not the only people who had issues with timbersil

 

[duncanthetall]

Idk because nobody really knows what you're doing behind a screen. I do a lot to give back to the black community so I'm not going to give props to a white man.

Ugh. Shut up ya dumb bytch

 

[Da King]

And Birdman saying he getting $100,000,000 checks and can't even pay the people who actually work for him


Cac Pitt

 

[goatnole]

They're worth millions and millions of dollars. Columbine?!?!? Weren't most of those families white besides that one black dude who got killed?!?!?! I'm just saying these black celebs could do a lot more. They could purchase land, and build houses/buildings on that land, and ONLY sell to blacks.

It don't matter, what they do will never be enough.

 

[Steve Piffler]

Is Baby yo uncle or Pappy?

No....but my granny is from Louisiana

 

[Knuckles Red]

I hope you're a female

You sound like a bytch asking black celebs (daddy) to do shyt for you.

Don't depend on actors and ball players to save you. It starts with you.

Don't be dumb.

 

[Will Ross]

Brad Pitt is one of those white people that see us as less so he has to give us stuff so we can survive

 

[3rdWorld]

 

[babylon1]

the fukk's the point? that area's only going to get blasted once again by another massive hurricane. it's only a matter of time

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Cause they need their nickel.

fukk I'm supposed to give a ridiculously rich man a pat on the back for giving homes to the homeless? I'm not giving any white man credit for shyt, I give back myself anyway. And not to charity either. I give back to my family in Africa and my family in America too (who happen to live in Louisiana). So good for him, great they have a place to live. He's doing the right thing, he's not shooting nikkas, he's built them homes.

If it was as easy to give as you insinuate, our plight would look a lot more promising moving forward... It takes a certain type of mind/heart to genuinely give... Most people don't have it in them....

 

[philmonroe]

worship cacs building houses as tax write offs

behs




Trump, Taxes, Tampons, And Snoop Dogg

This makes no sense because if it was someone black y'all all be here giving props just the same thing when he's doing it for the same reason. Make sense when y'all post

 

[philmonroe]

Ok, Brad Pitt deserves props for this, sure.

But let's not get carried away.

4% of Americans are millionaires.

And of that small percentage, 76% are white.

So before you start attacking fellow Coli posters for not doing what Brad Pitt does, think about how the system works.

And before you start attacking the relatively few black millionaires, think of ALL the white millionaires who could be doing what Brad is doing and aren't.

So while Brad Pitt is doing the right thing, he's not the Messiah. He's the result of a corrupt system that pretty much requires outside help for the black community to get a leg up

Regarding bold with online and all this info on top of the amount of people whining, excuse making, etc its one of the best times to try to make money that shyt ain't holding any weight. You got 9yr old girls making shyt, cats selling fukking potatoes for 10k, etc so nah dude that excuse is garbage.

 

[Piffiztheanswer]