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How Brad Pitt's green housing dream for Hurricane Katrina survivors turned into a nightmare

  • Written by Judith Keller, International Research Scholar of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageBrad Pitt walks past one of the first homes built in New Orleans by his Make It Right Foundation in this 2008 photo.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Brad Pitt’sMake 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...

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