Report: Brad Pitt’s ‘Make It Right’ campaign built more than 100 ‘sustainable’ houses after Hurricane Katrina. Now, most are ‘in shambles,' with mold, termites, and rotting wood.

After Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans in 2005, destroying large sections of the city and displacing thousands of residents, award-winning movie star Brad Pitt decided to take action to help suffering residents. He launched an organization called “Make It Right” and set off on a mission to build more than 100 environmentally conscious, sustainable homes in the city's impoverished Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm.

But now, several years later, the vast majority of Make It Right's homes are in shambles and are suffering from catastrophic structural defects, according to Judith Keller, an international research scholar in geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Meanwhile, Pitt's organization has apparently folded under the weight of numerous lawsuits.

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Writing for the Conversation, Keller reported that only six of the homes remain in reasonably good shape. Several have been demolished, at least another six have been boarded up and abandoned, and countless others are "riddled with construction-related problems that have led to mold, termites, rotting wood, flooding, and other woes." Many residents have reportedly filed lawsuits against the organization that are still pending.

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how about jimmy Carter's charity. How are the houses doing there.

there are churches who go...i only hear about the liberal inclined to put up houses or repair houses and i have to wonder how these houses do long term...because they go to areas where people do not have money to upkeep these houses and if this stuff is done for free...just how valuable is it to the recipient.

Calypso Jones wrote:how about jimmy Carter's charity.  How are the houses doing there.  

there are churches who go...i only hear about the  liberal inclined to put up houses or repair houses and i have to wonder how these houses do long term...because they go to areas where people do not have money to upkeep these houses and if this stuff is done for free...just how valuable is it to the recipient.  

The city of N.O. has structural codes that must be adhered to.   Each phase of construction is inspected by City Authority Inspectors to assure adherence.

Shoddy construction is unlikely; while lack of proper maintenance will destroy a building very quickly.

The legal actions are an attempt to get more free benefits by blaming others for personal failings.

A form of extortion.