Situated on a corner, the house is a bleached beige rhombus with exaggerated geometric eaves, hovering on pilings high above the ground. It tapers downward in the back, where sheets of corrugated metal create a decorative checkerboard pattern around the multiple patios. We have a hole in the porch. The railing came apart. Right now we have problems with the light switches. According to Claiborne, the family has made multiple calls to Make It Right representatives, but have never heard back.
Thirteen years after their original home in the Lower Ninth Ward drowned and after they were displaced to Fort Worth, Texas, to wait out the recovery, the family is facing hardship once again. Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans when it hit in August , killing more than 1, people in the state of Louisiana alone and displacing more than one million in the Gulf Coast region.
While some residents could return to their homes within days, an estimated , households remained displaced a month later. The hurricane remains the largest residential disaster in American history. The Lower Ninth Ward, a working-class, predominantly African-American neighborhood on the banks of the Mississippi River, was completely submerged by the hurricane. When actor Brad Pitt visited the area two years after the storm, he was alarmed by how little had been done to rebuild.
On March 16, , former president Bill Clinton picked up a shovel alongside Pitt and they broke ground on the project. Thousands of people still need help in order to return home. Ten years later, only of the have been completed, and of those , many appear to be falling apart.
Further, the suit alleges that the foundation was aware of problems as early as and that Make It Right representatives arranged inspections of the houses in , , and , but did not share the results with residents; in fact, the reps allegedly asked some residents to sign nondisclosure agreements before they would agree to make repairs, say the plaintiffs. What some people fail to realize, Austin points out, is that these houses were not gifts from Pitt.
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