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CAUSE BOOSTER: A nonprofit group’s report on...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Steve Emmons
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CAUSE BOOSTER: A nonprofit group’s report on affordable housing in Southern California (B1) supports what the Orange County Homeless Issues Task Force has known all along: There’s a crisis in housing for poor people here. But Tim Shaw, the task force’s program coordinator, calls the new report important. . . . “We have to have more awareness,” he says. “When we go into city council meetings with an affordable housing project, there are always massive numbers of people to protest. We need some numbers on our side.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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