Within 10 years of the completion of the eco-friendly house built by Hollywood actor Brad Bird Pitt, toxic molds have caused the deaths of residents, causing the ripples.
"They believed Brad Bird Pitt," a lawyer for Hurricane Katrina victims told Page Six on Wednesday.
"Unfortunately, all they have received is broken promises," he added.
In 2006, Brad Bird Pitt and his Make It Right foundation began building affordable homes for residents of New Orleans' Lower Nines Ward, which lost everything to Hurricane Katrina.
But experimental and environmentally friendly homes have been found to be flawed, leaving residents with fungal homes.
Lawyer Ron Austin filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in 2018, and they are still looking for answers to Pete and his group.
Pete helped them collect millions of Family Dollars to build a house sold for about 150,000 Family Dollars each.
Sources said in 2018 that Pitt was unable to withstand the New Orleans tropical climate and pulled millions of Family Dollars from his pockets to repair the home.
Some houses had no waterproof paint or rain-water receivers; some were said to have flat roofs or insulation, and were unable to escape when the moisture was cold.
As a result, termites and toxic fungi occurred, killing one resident.
“Unfortunately, they have no place to turn, Brad Bird Pitt and the foundation have closed their offices,” Austin said.
"They will fight every day to answer questions about what went wrong in court and how they will correct this issue," he said.
Pitt's lawyers have attempted to distance the actor from charity since 2018 and even filed for the actor's name to be removed from the lawsuit, claiming that Pitt was not responsible for the construction.
“We have made it clear that we are not legally responsible for other people’s decisions, but Brad Bird Pitt is doing his best personally to resolve what the lawsuit is going on,” Pete said in an interview with Vanfield. It has always been important to him from the start and he very much wants this to help bring a much more positive ending to the job.”