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Pitt’s philanthropy: How a film star is helping to build post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans

By Jane Muder

Philanthropy helps people re-claim their lives — a concept with which Brad Pitt is intimately familiar.

Hurricane Katrina aid goes toward luxury condos far from the storm zone

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama: With large swaths of the Gulf Coast region of the United States still in ruins from Hurricane Katrina, rich federal tax breaks designed to spur rebuilding are flowing hundreds of miles (kilometers) inland to investors who are buying up luxury condominiums.

MDA: Progress being made on post-Katrina housing crisis

By MICHAEL NEWSOM
SUN HERALD
JACKSON — Representatives of the Mississippi Development Authority told lawmakers Thursday that despite the bureaucratic federal regulations, the state is poised to make significant progress on the post-Katrina housing crisis soon.