This is what the majority of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans still looks like, empty plots of land or slabs of concrete. However, thanks to Brad Pitt's Make It Right foundation, slowly but surely, homes are being rebuilt in the Lower 9th Ward and citizens are moving back home. Unfortunately, homes outside of that area are mostly being constructed by non-profit organizations and the thousands of volunteers, usually college students, that have traveled from all over the country to help. Their busiest season, in which they have the most progress in a single span of time, is during the month of March, during college Spring Breaks, leaving the summer months slow and difficult to keep pace.
This is one of the houses of the Make It Right project in the L9th, next to an empty stoop that is still marked by its address with a wooden pallet.
In any given neighborhood, lower, middle and even some upper class areas, 2/3 homes are still empty or not even close to being finished. This is the inside of a house in a middle class neighborhood on Paris & Fillmore. Many houses in this neighborhood haven't even gotten this far. However now, thanks to volunteers, after five days of work, this house now looks like this:
This house now has its ceilings in tact and a large start on its walls.
"For the longest time, I would walk into this house and think I invested my money in a pile of wood. But for the first time, now I am actually starting to see my house again," said Cynthia Foot, the owner of the house.
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