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Nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, some parts of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast look like little progress has been made. But there is a lot of activity, much of it the work of volunteers. Habitat for Humanity continues to build new homes. Brad Pitt’s Make It Right organization is building environmentally-friendly homes in the lower ninth ward. Catholic and Methodist volunteers are renovating homes in the upper ninth ward and across the river in Gretna. Americorps volunteers working with the Preservation Resource Center are rehabilitating homes in the Holy Cross neighborhood. In the east end of Biloxi, Mississippi, architects from Mississippi State University are working with low-income residents through the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio to design new or repaired housing.