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Helena Ong

Helena Ong is a reporting intern with the San Francisco Public Press. She is an International Relations major at New York University where she also worked for her campus newspaper, Washington Square News.

City Hall
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Community Leaders Strategize How Noncitizens Can Vote Amid Trump Vow of Deportation

12.14.2016
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By Helena Ong, Reporter

The election of Donald Trump has cast a pall of fear and uncertainty after passage of Proposition N, as local stakeholders scramble to figure out how to enable the city’s undocumented immigrant residents to vote for members of the Board of Education without increasing their risk of deportation, which the president-elect has threatened.

Community
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Lack of Shelter for Homeless Collides With Voters’ Wish to Clear Tent Encampments

12.07.2016
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By Helena Ong, Reporter and Noah Arroyo, Assistant Editor

San Francisco voters narrowly passed Proposition Q, creating new policies for how the city clears tent encampments where homeless people live. But that law may be a nonstarter, because there is virtually no indoor shelter available to get tent dwellers off city streets.

Elections
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Record Number of S.F. Voters Cast Ballots

11.21.2016
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By Noah Arroyo, Assistant Editor, Zachary Clark, Contributor and Helena Ong, Reporter

More people voted in this election than in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president.

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