I'm bewildered by what has gone on here.

The response of the federal government is bewildering and deplorable. We know how to deliver quality affordable housing in the United States -- we just need the will and leadership to do it.

[It is yet to be determined, for instance, just how much of a role the federal government will play in picking up the tab.] It depends on a threshold question: What are you going to rebuild? What is the federal responsibility for rebuilding a city, a metropolitan area or a region? This is where it gets really confused, ... Federalism is a messy business.

The president called this the largest reconstruction program in the history of the world, but when it comes to housing, the support is almost nonexistent, ... He's just handing out land.

I find fun in putting myself into someone else's frame of mind, ... I try to be creative but I'm also thinking that it's their vision, I'm able to put myself in their space as opposed to just being me and doing whatever it is that I want.

just replicate the social patterns that existed before the hurricane in a new location ... a hyper-concentration of poverty where people did not have easy access to good schools and quality jobs.