Brad Pitt's charitable foundation, Make It Right, is building 150 state-of-the-art, energy-efficient residences meant to revamp New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The homes were designed by prominent architects and experts brought together by the Make It Right foundation.
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The homes being built by Make It Right stand next to concrete slabs -- all that's left of houses washed away by a levee break during Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
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Angelina Jolie and her children Pax and Maddox visit a Ninth Ward Housing project in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spend time in the Ninth Ward Housing project in the Big Easy.
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These photos, provided by Eileen Fleming, show Rosemary, left, and Lloyd Griffin standing in front of their new home in New Orleans in October 2008.
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People attending an open house for a newly finished home lined their shoes up at the doorway in the Lower Ninth Ward. The new home was built by Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation.
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One of the first of a handful of homes in Brad Pitt's Make It Right rebuilding project holds an open house in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans in October 2008. The Make It Right program calls for 150 homes to be built where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina, letting loose floodwaters that pushed homes off their foundations.
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New Orleans resident Gloria Guy in front of her new house, one of 150 planned homes.
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In the spirit of celebration that comes with renewal, the Lagniappe House, by Concordia, will feature, at the owner's request, murals, floor patterns and other creative works by Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc., a non-profit arts and social service organization whose mission is to provide educational experiences and opportunities that empower artistically talented inner-city youth to be professionally self-sufficient through creative self-expression.
A shotgun house, like the one shown here by Constructs LLC Ghana, is typically one room wide and several rooms long with a gable roof facing the main street. Its roots are in Yoruba, West Africa. New Orleans is considered the center of the shotgun housing development in the United States and the connection between the two is made via towns in Southern Haiti. Historians have linked the occurrence of the shotgun houses in Haiti and Louisiana to the trade links and immigration between the two.
