THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777 - Gloria Jackson arrives from hospital to see her new house for the first time prepared by her husband Rickey Jackson so she could die in comfort away from the squalor and dirt of their old apartment complex Sugar Hill, in McKinney, TX on March 2, 2005..Pastor Rock has spent the past three years fighting race, poverty and violence at Sugar Hill, the poorest of the poor living in public housing in Texas' richest county, Collin County. Originating in 1969, the McKinney apartment complex rose next to an old cotton field, with 100 units that would battle decades of economic annd racial isolation, squalor, criminal neglect, crack cocaine and bureaucratic equivocation supported by millions of taxpayer dollars.

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83777 - Gloria Jackson arrives from hospital to see her new house for the first time prepared by her husband Rickey Jackson so she could die in comfort away from the squalor and dirt of their old apartment complex Sugar Hill, in McKinney, TX on March 2, 2005..Pastor Rock has spent the past three years fighting race, poverty and violence at Sugar Hill, the poorest of the poor living in public housing in Texas' richest county, Collin County. Originating in 1969, the McKinney apartment complex rose next to an old cotton field, with 100 units that would battle decades of economic annd racial isolation, squalor, criminal neglect, crack cocaine and bureaucratic equivocation supported by millions of taxpayer dollars.