Quotes About Urban

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

I'm always going to be a hood chick. I like street clothes.

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

I'm from L.A. I grew up in the 'hood.

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Hip Hop is very addictive.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

I'm not really a big walk-around-the-city type of guy. I'm a hotel type of guy.

I love the Bowery Hotel by night.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

I never built houses, only apartments.

In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.