Our Work And Progress : Make It Right

Make It Right is Committed to Making a Difference: More than 4,000 homes in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Two years later, when actor Brad Pitt toured the city, the neighborhood was still deserted and devastated. Pitt promised the families he met there, that he would help make it right. He founded Make It Right to build 150 affordable, green storm resistant homes for families living in the Lower 9th Ward when the storm hit.

In the Lower 9th Ward today, home by home, family by family, a neighborhood is coming to life.: The landscape changes every day. Another family comes home. A community garden is planted. There are more kids on the playground. Right now, 14 families live in Make It Right homes. Another 19 are under construction. Track our progress.

More than homes are needed to build a vibrant, sustainable community.: In addition to helping 150 families come home, Make It Right is helping to rebuild the community – complete with native landscaping, micro-farms, rain gardens and even building new streets. Make it Right gardens are going up right now at the Martin Luther King school, at the Tekrema Community Center and the Village. Take a Look

Make It Right's Completed Homes: From its inception, the Make It Right project relied on the generosity of acclaimed local, national and international architects who donated their cutting-edge designs for single family homes and duplexes. See Our Completed Homes

A Unique Laboratory: Beyond building new homes for residents who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, Make It Right is a unique laboratory for testing and implementing new construction techniques, technologies and materials that will make green, storm resistant homes affordable and broadly available to working families in communities across America. Learn more

: Diedra Taylor, her mother and four children waited in Weatherford, Texas for almost four years before they could come home. Robert Green stayed on his Lower 9th Ward lot, living in a FEMA trailer for close to four years. Now he’s living in his Make It Right home.; Meet all the Make It Right Homeowners