Inside L.A.’s illegal rent-hike crisis
Los Angeles landlords are being named and shamed in an online effort to combat illegal price gouging following Southern ...
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How widespread is post-fire rent gouging? These volunteer sleuths analyzed the data
Within days of the historic fires in Los Angeles County, advocates began tracking listings for rental housing on Zillow that raised asking rents far above the 10% limit under California’s law ...
LA wildfires create spike in rent prices, forcing rental listing sites to act
Sites that host rental listings in the Los Angeles County area are scrambling to address rent gouging amid the destructive, deadly wildfires ravaging the region.
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Signs of rent gouging rise across region in fires’ wake, bringing calls for enforcement
In the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, the asking rent for a two-bedroom condo ... companies are taking action where they can. Zillow, the popular real estate listing website, allows ...
Some price-gouging rules could be keeping high-end homes off L.A.’s rental market
A law barring monthly rents of more than $10,000 for new listings is stopping high-end homes from going on the market, real ...
Rent gouging in Los Angeles County will soon carry a maximum $50,000 penalty
Rent Brigade, an online group that tracks rent increases, found more than 2,800 examples of rent gouging in LA County.
LA lawmakers threaten landlords with fines as high as $50K in rent-gouging crackdown
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit this week against Blueground, a short-term rental company that ...
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Exploiting disaster: Renters accuse Los Angeles landlords of "abusive and illegal" price hikes
Los Angeles-area landlords appear determined ... The latter is a necessity, activists say, because Zillow and Airbnb still do not display rental price history despite concerns about a lack of ...
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Los Angeles Rents Are Going Up By The Hour
Within the week since Los Angeles’s worst-ever disaster began, rent gouging has become a crisis ... But according to sites like Zillow, the gouging is rampant anyway. “People smell blood ...