For the last month, the 四虎影院 series has illuminated the lives of folks on the financial edge in Jubilee Park.
As 四虎影院鈥檚 Courtney Collins reported, Jubilee has seen change for the good, but there are still plenty of problems in the East Dallas neighborhood: it鈥檚 tough to find fresh food, bank accounts and decent-paying jobs.
Our vice president of news, Rick Holter, sat down with Courtney for this week鈥檚 Friday Conversation.
Interview Highlights: Courtney Collins on...
...Taking a walk down a Jubilee Park street:
鈥淚t鈥檚 really quiet actually; you can always hear the birds, that鈥檚 one of my favorite things about it. There鈥檚 not a lot of trees in Jubilee Park, especially in the winter, there鈥檚 not a lot of leaves on the trees. When the sun鈥檚 out the whole community is bright, like you are standing on the face of the sun, it鈥檚 really special. There鈥檚 also a lot of community pride in Jubilee, residents that have been there for decades are really proud of the improvements their community has made. You also run into the same people all the time, which is fun. It really is a community.鈥�
...The biggest surprise in Jubilee Park: 鈥淓verything I read kind of made it seem like a bad banking history was the only obstacle to folks having a checking account, like everybody who didn鈥檛 have one maybe had insufficient funds in the past and couldn鈥檛 get an account but they were yearning for one anyway. When I got to Jubilee Park and asked people why don鈥檛 you have a bank account, they were pretty ambivalent. A lot of people said, they鈥檙e just not for me or I don鈥檛 have a need for a bank account. On the other side of that, people were mistrustful or a little hostile toward the banking system."
