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Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation faces a disaster for building low-quality greenhouses for low-income people in New Orleans, nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the place.
As an urban geographer who researches on housing development, I’ve been following Make It Right’s travails since 2018, when residents tried to get the New Orleans City Council involved and have municipal authorities inspect the homes. The situation has only deteriorated since then, highlighting the perils that can accompany nonprofit housing development.
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built 109 eye-catching and affordable homes in New Orleans for a community where many people were displaced by damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now this housing development is in disarray. The vast majority of the
Just six of the 109 affordable homes Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation built in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are still in livable condition.