THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

83777 --- Jajreon Smith kisses his grandmother Gloria Jackson good-bye held by his cousin Vanessa Simmons at the end of her funeral on May 4, 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 --- Jajreon Smith kisses his grandmother Gloria Jackson good-bye held by his cousin Vanessa Simmons at the end of her funeral on May 4, 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.