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Brad Makes Another New Orleans Pitt Stop
Brad Pitt may be turning New Orleans green, but he's still seeing red over the city's tortured rebuilding process.
The actor and part-time philanthropist paid a visit to the construction site of his eco-friendly, low-income housing project in the Big Easy Wednesday, to check on the progress on the Hurricane Katrina-inspired initiative he launched with Global Green USA.
A year after announcing the winners of the Sustainable Design Competition, and three months after breaking ground on the Ninth Ward project, Pitt stopped by the construction site to assess both the undertaking, which seeks to offer affordable, environmentally-friendly housing to single family homes displaced by the disaster.
"It is really dedicated to the quality of life of the family that'll live here," Pitt told NBC's Today show of the competition's design, in contrast to the FEMA-offered trailers the families currently call home. "It is about fairness, it is about dignity.
"It's a justice issue and what we saw in Katrina is that there is a portion of our society that's being overlooked. In the aftermath, we're not going to be able to bring back their friends and family that are lost, we're not going be able to bring back their heirlooms and their photographs, but maybe we can provide a better way of life. Maybe we can find some good out of this."
Pitt, who along with Angelina Jolie purchased a home in New Orleans in January, told Ann Curry that his concern for the rebuilding of the city sprung from his own residence there, saying, "I care very much for the area."
"Any debate on should we rebuild, should we not, I'll take you on," he said, adding that he looked forward to the region becoming a "big topic" in the upcoming presidential elections as the current level of lip service paid to the continued displacement of the residents simply "hasn't been enough.
"This place here is a small victory in that direction," he said of his housing project. "It doesn't feel like much of a victory when you look at the overall problem here. Katrina was a man-made disaster.
"The misconception is that it was nature," he said of Katrina, adding instead that he blamed "decades and decades of erroneous engineering moves. Really, really bad, irresponsible moves that I believe the government has a responsibility to make right."
Pitt, for one, is doing his part. All five single-family homes, and 18 apartments, which will be built with green materials and come equipped with energy-saving appliances, dual windows and high-efficiency lightbulbs, are scheduled for completion by this time next year.
The 43-year-old, meanwhile, is also getting set to unveil plans for an all new, likely equally eco-friendly, housing project for New Orleans in the very near future.
In the meantime, Pitt is continuing his bid to help the Big Easy. According to E! Online senior editor Marc Malkin, both Pitt and Jolie are putting together an intimate dinner, at which they will be appearing together, in the Hamptons to raise funds for his New Orleans housing projects. Helping to wrangle in the big names—and bigger pocketbooks—are Tribeca Film Festival cofounders and movie producers Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, who will host the soiree.
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