REAL ESTATE
August 14, 2005 | Diane Wedner, Times Staff Writer
THEY extinguish fires, teach children, tend the ill and run small businesses in urban areas. What they cannot do is find homes they can afford near those jobs. But faster than anyone imagined, relief is coming to Inglewood, Oxnard, Pomona, Covina, South Park, Palm Springs and other Southern California communities where middle-class workers are starved for housing.