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Pitt needs money to rebuild New Orleans
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-04 09:33

Actor Brad Pitt stands amidst the Pink Project, metal frames draped in pink fabric, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans December 3, 2007. Pitt said on Monday he wants to build 150 environmentally friendly homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the hard-hit New Orleans neighborhood. [Agencies]

 

"I mean, this is really an adopt-a-house campaign," he said. "I'm asking for foundations, for high net-worth individuals, for church groups, for corporations to come in and adopt a house — basically, $150,000 will get a family back in their home."

Pitt has teamed up with 13 architects for the project, and explained that each home will be built on stilts as a precaution against the threat of flooding. He said design requirements for the homes were "affordability, sustainability, safety — and that they be beautiful."

 

 

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