By Jeffrey Ruiz Originally appeared in Dallas Free Press Every afternoon, 67-year-old Patsy Ruth Jackson visits her home on Shaw Street. She shuffles through the mail on her porch, checks the doors and windows, then returns to her sister-in-law’s house to spend the night. She’s been doing this since 2020. Today, as she walks through her house, she carefully steps on the uneven floor of her living room where chunks of sheetrock are scattered all over her belongings. “I’m not an animal,” Jackson says. “Ain’t no way I’d leave my house if everything was in working condition. But I cannot
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