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EXCLUSIVE: Brad Pitt's Hurricane Katrina homes are rotting, leaking and caving in - and residents claim the actor and his charity have disappeared from New Orleans and some fear they will be forced to abandon poorly built properties
Brad Pitt's charity Make It Right promised to regenerate the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the years after it was decimated by Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005
Shortly after the hurricane, families who had lost everything were encouraged to return to the area and buy affordable housing built by Pitt's Make It Right Foundation
People praised Pitt for his actions, and for the first years, the program made a difference despite running massively over budget
But Pitt hasn't been seen in recent years and the last home was built in 2016
The charity seems to have given up on its promise to construct 150 new homes - as stated on its out-of-date website - with just over 100 being built
On the 13th-year anniversary of Katrina, images and video of Make it Right properties show rotting roofs, walls falling off, and leaking floorboards
Sources close to Pitt insist that Brad recognizes there have been some issues but he and other MIR leadership members continue to dedicate time and money to the project.
Walking around New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, people are still angry at the impact of Hurricane Katrina and how unprepared the city was for the massive storm nearly 13 years on.
But now some of their wrath is directed at Brad Pitt and his charity Make It Right.
After the levees of the city's industrial canal were breached, the Lower Ninth Ward of predominantly black and low-income families was decimated by the floods, with most houses swept away or left in ruins.
Among the first to lend a helping hand was Pitt, who - along with his then wife Angelina Jolie - owned a house in New Orleans and set up the charity Make It Right to help regenerate the area. Pitt was lauded as a humanitarian who willing to put his money where his heart was.
But according to residents interviewed by DailyMail.com,, Pitt hasn't been seen in the Lower Ninth Ward in years and the last Make It Right home was built in 2016, giving up on its promise to construct 150 new homes - as stated on its out-of-date website - with just over 100 being built.
And many of those houses are falling apart, with roofs caving in, wood rotting and walls collapsing.
http:// www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5922515/Brad-Pitts-Hurricane-Katrina-homes-rotting-leaking-caving-in.html