Native News Online has reported that actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right non-profit organization and the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck, Montana have formed a partnership to build sustainable homes, buildings and communities on their reservation.
Pitt’s organization Make It Right was established in 2007 to help those who are in need of housing. According to tribal officials, more than 600 people are waiting for housing on the reservation and that makes this partnership a perfect fit.
Taylor Royale, a spokesperson for Make It Right wrote: “Overcrowding is a chronic problem with multiple families commonly living together in two-bedroom homes due to lack of accommodation.”
The new homes will have three or four bedrooms, two or three bathrooms and will be solar powered. Housing will be available for tribal members whose income levels fall below 60 percent of the Area Median Income.
“As a tribal designer working in Indian country, I feel we have an obligation to design and build housing that is tied to the culture, community and place of Fort Peck,” says Joseph Kunkel, Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow From The Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative.
Construction is set to begin in 2014.
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