Brad Pitt Commissions Designs for New Orleans
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/design/03pitt.html?em&ex=1196917200&en=d75db6a07a2e17...
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The project, called Make It Right, calls for building 150 affordable, environmentally sound houses over the next two years. In a telephone interview from New Orleans, where he plans to present the designs today, Mr. Pitt said the residents of the neighborhood had been homeless long enough. Theyre coming up on their third Christmas, he said.
Mr. Pitt is asking foundations, corporations and individuals to contribute to the project by adopting one house, several houses or a portion of a house through the project Web site, makeitrightnola.org. You can adopt a tankless water heater or a solar panel or a tree or a low-flush toilet, Mr. Pitt said. You can give it to someone for Christmas, he said instead of another sweater.
Responding to critics who question the wisdom of rebuilding at all in an area likely to get hit again, Mr. Pitt said: My first answer to that is, talk to the people whove lived there and have raised their kids there. People are needing to get back in their homes.
Mr. Pitt is asking foundations, corporations and individuals to contribute to the project by adopting one house, several houses or a portion of a house through the project Web site, makeitrightnola.org. You can adopt a tankless water heater or a solar panel or a tree or a low-flush toilet, Mr. Pitt said. You can give it to someone for Christmas, he said instead of another sweater.
Responding to critics who question the wisdom of rebuilding at all in an area likely to get hit again, Mr. Pitt said: My first answer to that is, talk to the people whove lived there and have raised their kids there. People are needing to get back in their homes.
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maloner
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Brad Pitt is a great guy and the government should be the one strengthening the levees not Mr Pitt. He is doing more than his share helping the people of New Orleans to get back in their homes. I have nothing but respect for Brad Pitt.
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maloner
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JanforGore
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That's great. But maybe he should have invested the money in strengthening the levees as well in order to keep these homes from being swallowed up again. Re-ports are that the work done on them is not bringing them to the standard needed to prevent another Katrina.
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JanforGore
