Kris Kristofferson

Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.

American Musician

Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me.

Deval Patrick

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.

American Politician

Martin Scorsese

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

American Director

Claude McKay

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Jamaican Writer

Bonnie Bedelia

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

American Actress

Peter Capaldi

It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.

Scottish Actor

Paul Simon

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Bob Menendez

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

Cy Coleman

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

American Composer

Tenement often implies overcrowding and poor living conditions in urban areas.

Urban Poverty

The term is more common in historical or older texts, referring to early 20th-century urban housing.

Historical Context

While tenements are associated with poverty, they may also just mean rented apartments.

Not Always Poor

In legal contexts, tenement refers to any type of land ownership, not just buildings.

Legal Ownership

Tenements can relate to the commercial or industrial use of land, like mining or farming.

Economic Activity

The word is technical jargon in industries like real estate or land development.

Technical Terms

 but there were these tenement buildings, and these women were always hanging out one of the windows, leaning on a pillow. They never left. I, so help me God, I grew up walking those streets, and they were always there. They never went to the bathroom. They never cooked. They never did anything.

Colin Powell: Kids need...

 case it was aunts who lived in all of these tenement buildings I don't know how many of you New Yorkers but there were these tenement buildings and these women were always hanging out one of the windows leaning on a pillow they never left I so help me God I grew up walking

Kids need structure -...

 or tenements they were small and rarely had windows so there was no light or ventilation houses are overcrowded they're working in factories that breathing on one another that contaminating one another with their