he did it for Ms. Gladys
Brad Pitt Builds 109 'futuristic' Homes For Homeless In NO
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he did it for Ms. Gladys
I'd quote the whole story but I'm on mobile and can't get the link for some reason
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.”
Disingenuous thing to say, it was the suppliers of the building products fukking up
A person with money is helping people without money specifically black people who were displaced by hurricane Katrina and have few avenues back to building a normal life and the best you can do is automatically question instead of giving the guy the benefit of the doubt for the time being
Is your ass displaced?
Have you given a dime to anyone displaced by katrina?
You should probably shut the fukk up then and salute a good deed
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did more than fukking birdman ever did...
A person with money is helping people without money specifically black people who where displaced by hurricane Katrina and have few avenues back to building a normal life and the best you can do is automatically question instead of giving the guy the benefit of the doubt for the time being
Is your ass displaced?
Have you given a dime to anyone displaced by katrina?
You should probably shut the fukk up then and salute a good deed
A c00n with an avi of some nasty pink buttcheeks is talking shyt to me about race on the internet, what should I do?
Typical dumbass retort
When you have nothing to say just call em c00ns
wild cherry blossom
lalalalala
It's awesome what he's doing.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Brad Pitt and Leo the top cacs 
Knuckles Red
<3<3<3
Meanwhile, Jay Z and Dr Dre are doing what? Black celebs, for the most part, ain't shyt. A lot of them don't even fight white supremacy by calling out racism within their own industry. Look at the whole Donald Sterling controversy. Those worthless NBA players didn't even boycott. So pathetic!!! This story is actually embarrassing.
built to avoid future flooding tho...
Made it through page 1 and saw no haters 
Made it through page 1 and saw no haters
Jay-Z has donated from time to time. While during that whole columbine shooting i think he donated to the families of that school shooting. Dr Dre gave all the proceeds of the compton album to build a recreational center for the kids living in compton.
