Fury Movie Star Brad Pitt Thirty Charity Houses For Hurricane Katrina Victims Is Reportedly Rotting From The Inside Out

Fury Movie Star Brad Pitt charity Make It Right is being backlashed after the houses it built for the victims of Hurricane Katrina are now rotting.

"The wood turned gray and it was also black," Make It Right home-owner Nola Verrett complains to  RadarOnline.com exclusively. "Also some parts it was buckling and it had mushrooms growing out of it. Different neighborhoods saw it too."

Make It Right is a nonprofit foundation established by Brad Pitt to help rebuild the New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward environmentally after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, is now considering to imply legal action actions against the supplier of the woods used on the estimated thirty houses that are said to be rotting, according to the Big Easy edition of The Advocate.

"Make It Right is ambitious and tries new things all the time in order to make our homes better," according to the 50-year old actor Brad Pitt said in a statement released by Make It Right. "Where we find innovative products that didn't perform, we move quickly to correct these things for our homeowners."

TimberSIL, is one of the suppliers of wood in building the houses, is considered environment friendly because of the lack of usual chemicals used in mainstream building materials, but claims to be "an effective barrier in lumber to rot, decay and common wood problems without using toxic ingredients."

"In trying to be sustainable and green, we didn't want to use decking lumber that had chemicals in it," Make It Right spokeswoman Taylor Royce told The Advocate, saying that they've evaluated the woods used before using it to build the houses.

However, Royce claimed that the wood "was unable to withstand moisture, which obviously is a big problem in New Orleans." She said that they will have to replace all the TimberSIL woods used for all of the houses, even if some did not show any sign of rotting, an estimated cost of about $150,000.

"We are evaluating our rights under the law and under the product warranty," she explained. "We hope to have a candid discussion with the company and have asked them to put their insurance carrier on notice. We prefer to resolve this short of litigation, but we are prepared to pursue all legal remedies if necessary."

On the other hand, TimberSIL's executive vice-president told the publication that the company would "begin the process of gathering the necessary information to evaluate the concerns and achieve a satisfactory outcome."

Pitt once said that he fell in love with New Orleans when he was shooting "Interview With the Vampire" in 1994 with co-actor Tom Cruise. He felt obliged to help the state after seeing how little help was being done to the neighborhood in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

"If the Army Corps would just have spent a little bit more time, put in a little more focus and a little bit more money and done it right the first time, New Orleans would be a far safer place," he said on his interview with New Orleans Times-Picayune in 2010.

"And it wouldn't have cost the billions of dollars to fix what was wrong. And I find that inexcusable. So our Make It Right homes are built right. And that's where the title came from: Make It Right. Just make it right for everybody. Make things fair to the people of New Orleans. Make it right."

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