Posted on 03/24/2025 8:10:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Brad Pitt has hit a snag in the $20.5 million lawsuit against his Make it Right Project.
Pitt, 61, started the project in the wake of 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans with an aim to build ecologically sustainable homes to replace the houses that were flooded.
He spent $12 million through his Make It Right Project to build 150 ecologically sustainable homes but now, nearly two decades later, those homeowners have organized a class action lawsuit against him and his non profit.
Many of the homes have developed mold problems and other serious issues.
The homeowners' legal team, Ron Austin Law, scored a huge victory with the court decreeing that Make It Right must hand over vital docs at the discovery stage.
The Sun reported that the Inglorious Basterds star has been trying to block having to face deposition, saying that it clashed with his busy movie schedule.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well...they wanted, "green," homes...
Guess I’m sliding here... but I cleaned up on some Mallards and Pintails recently. LA doesn’t have the season that TX does, but you will nail some birds.
Winner comment!
Or, Pitt could have watched “The Magnificent Seven”
Eli Wallach “Sooner or later you must answer for every good deed.”
I don’t know the details of the construction but when you super insulate any house you have to add an air to air heat exchanger.
If you don’t do that moisture will build up on the inside of the exterior sheathing or inside the drywall.
What works in Montana or Minnesota does not in New Orleans.
The fact is NONE of the houses in the 9th Ward should ever have been rebuilt there.
It is below sea level. They should have turned it into a city park and moved all the people who lived there to higher ground.
It would have been better to put them all in double wides instead rebuilding shot gun shacks below sea level.
After the ten-year mark, the mold and all the other problems will be on the owner.
Due to heavy rain and humidity, New Orleans requires special building materials and construction practices to prevent mold. Good intentions and a pretty face make no difference, as Mr. Pitt is now finding out.
The fable of the frog and the scorpion comes to mind...
Did the residents purchase these homes or were they donated?
I broke FR tradition and read the story, and didn’t see this stated. If they didn’t purchase these homes, I don’t understand how the charity or Pitt would be liable.
True, they should have used paperless mold resistant drywall. The big problem is these homes were designed by people with no regional experience. They were designed on a “feel good” level instead of a nuts and bolts level. As a builder of nearly fifty years I’ve seen this play out many times. Brad got caught in the middle.
It sounds like Brad got sucked into an entire chain of liberals and contractors incompetence and corruption that bled him for money and produced junk versions of what he thought was going to be real houses.
Just read another article stating that the homeowners had to take out mortgages for these homes.
Ah.. maybe Pitt’s organization was subsidizing the cost.
Just struck me as odd to blame a charity. But I suppose a homeless person could sue a shelter if they got sick from the food provided there.
He's a dumbass. His small amount knowledge of acting in no way translates to anything outside the genre, but you can't tell him that.
Indirectly by the hurricane.
They flooded when a barge broke off its mooring and plowed through a levee.
So even if Pitt has to testify in court what is he going to say? Is he an architect? Is he a contractor? Is he a mold expert?
My guess is the contracts went to politically connected cronies of the right melanin content and they skimmed huge amounts of cash and materials from the projects.
Right after Katrina hit, I saw a news story where two NOLA residents were interviewed who'd lost their homes.
The first was an insured homeowner who was rebuilding his house. He was very happy with the progress and how much the insurance company was helping.
The second was a renter with no insurance who was bemoaning how little FEMA was doing to get her back into a house.
This 2018 article gives some more information:
- Pitt’s charity didn’t hand out homes for free. These people took out mortgages - $130,000 for a house.
- Pitt raised the money. He didn’t pay out of his own pocket for the homes to be built.
- But he insisted the homes be “green,” and the homes were not built right for the Louisiana climate.
For example, the article says, “Make It Right chose TimberSIL because it advertised sustainable wood that was not treated with chemicals, but the lumber rotted in the Louisiana climate...”
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