Reiss Nelson Quotes

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.

I didn't grow up in the worst neighborhood. It wasn't the best either.

I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.

Baltimore's just like, it's like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Poverty demoralizes.

Baltimore is a goddamn ghetto. It's worse than Washington. It is shit.

Poverty causes crime.

It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs.

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out and cause trouble in my neighborhood. I had to learn how to protect myself, because it didn't feel like anyone else was protecting me.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

There's not a lot of hope coming from the inner city.

Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.