A side issue, but in fairness to Brad Pitt, all he was doing was *funding* that charity that built those “green” houses in New Orleans; he didn’t go out and buy the wood himself. And, after sitting for years in the Louisiana climate, if not cared for (and many of these houses being owned by New Orleans blacks, they’re likely not maintained), most wooden houses are going to start to degrade.
If you erect any house of plain wood....untreated...and you don’t go back to repaint or do weather proofing....then the house is useless in seven years. A bunch of naive folks thinking they are doing good....but simply giving out a one-star home that will be vacant in roughly ten to fifteen years. A house-trailer would have at least last twenty years.