Make It Right Foundation
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The Make It Right Foundation is a non-profit foundation founded by American actor Brad Pitt in 2007 after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild houses in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans in an environmentally friendly way. The organization also built structures in the American cities of Newark, New Jersey, and Kansas City, Missouri.[4]
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Founded | December 2007 (2007-12) |
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Founder | Brad Pitt |
Type | 501(c)(3) charitable organization |
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Focus | Redevelopment of the Lower 9th Ward, by building a neighborhood with safe and healthy homes.[1] |
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Area served | New Orleans, LA Newark, NJ Kansas City, MO |
Products | Low cost housing |
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Employees | <24 |
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By 2015, the foundation had built 109 homes for a total construction cost of US$26.8 million, or nearly US$250,000 per home, according to the foundation's tax filings.[5] The homes were sold for US$150,000.[5]
The development became a tourist attraction.[5]
In 2018, various residents of the foundation's homes filed suit against Make It Right, alleging that the non-profit built and sold houses with "defective" materials that caused electrical and plumbing malfunctions, with insufficient ventilation, and with other structural issues.[6] As of early 2022, reports stated that only 6 of the original 109 homes built remained in "reasonably good shape," with many rendered uninhabitable, plagued by construction errors and mold issues.[3]
In 2022, "a source close to Brad Pitt" told the British newspaper The Guardian that "Brad got involved at the beginning to help the people of the Lower Ninth Ward, and obviously it was upsetting to see what had happened once he had stepped back from the project and others took over."[7]
In 2022, the foundation paid $20.5 million to homeowners to settle a class action lawsuit.[8][5]