NOLA housing gets a high-profile boost

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Who's snickering about Brad Pitt's interest in architecture now? The movie star jolted attendees at the Clinton Global Initiative's conference in September by announcing plans to replace 150 destroyed houses in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward with new, environmentally sustainable ones that cost less than $200,000. He has formed a group called "Make It Right" to hire 13 architects for green designsrnthat fit the local vernacular. Each model will match what residents want to see with what engineers need to provide to protect against climate change and future floods. "Our goal is to bring green technology to the affordable level and not have it look like a Prius," Pitt said. When attendees laughed nervously, he added, "I own two of them, it's all right"