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Star Brad Pitt is launching a campaign to get new environmentally friendly houses built for New Orleans' families who lost their homes in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina storm.
"A hundred and fifty homes is our goal," he said. "But there is no reason why we can't do 1,000 homes, why we can't do 10,000 homes, why we can't do 100,000 homes."
Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie own a home in New Orleans' French Quarter and he's pledging to match up to $5m (£2.43m) in donations for his Make it Right project. Plans have been proposed for energy efficient homes that are also elevated to avoid flooding in the future. Each house is expected to cost an average of $150,000 (£72,770) and the first is hoped to be finished by next May.
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