Visiting New Orleans’ Ninth Ward as part of an AIA tour in 2011, architect Linda Reeder was impressed with the efforts of the Make It Right organization to bring affordable, well-designed, sustainable homes to the area, and she wanted to learn more. The result “Build It Right: Lessons from New Orleans” is her second article for FHB. Linda Reeder has an architecture firm (www.lindareederarch.com), is an instructor in the construction management program at Central Connecticut State University,the author of Guide to Green Building Rating Systems (Wiley, 2010).