Brad Pitt's green housing development is girly
Remember just the other day when I told you that Brad Pitt kicked off his Make It Right (MIR) project? In case you aren't hanging onto every word I write and need a little refresher, MIR is a green housing development for a destroyed New Orleans neighborhood.Brad chose to build in pink because he called it a color of the future. Plans are moving right along for this green/pink neighborhood. Back in December Kelly showed us the preliminary pictures, which mostly looked like giant blocks of pink cement. But those pink blocks have now become big pink houses. The Daily Mail shows us the view from above.
Over 600 volunteers have been working hard at finishing the housing development. The entire thing is worth about $5 million dollars. Back in December Kelly also told us about how the MIR organization was still trying to collect funds to finish finance the project, and now they've done it. The project has come to life.
The future is looking bright for residents of the Lower 9th Ward who will be inhabiting the new housing development. Each house costs about $150,000 dollars but residents of New Orleans will be offered no interest loans funded by the MIR charity.
It's amazing to see the good that celebrities can do in this world if they really put their minds to it. The world could use more Brangelina-like couples!
Via The Daily Mail.
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3-26-2008 @ 1:07PM
j gram said...
While I admire what "good" a multi-millionaire can do with his/her money, I fear this rebuilding program is an exercise in futility. It appears the American people - through their elected officials, lack the resolve to prevent another flood of the same nature as the one which devastated Louisiana, Mississippi and other states. The Netherlands has protected their earth for decades only with a huge investment of research, time, money and effort. The US is not pursuing this approach. We are merely begging to repeat our mistakes-rebuilding on a flood plain with levees and damns which will surely fail again.
It is my hope Mr. Pitt is working on government agencies to employ more effective measures to protect these new green pink homes. Without adequate measures to hold back the ocean, they will simply pollute the environment less when the next waves come. He has the power to make that the issue-not just pursue an undeniably charitable impulse to build what will simply be more temporary housing. jg in PDX
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