City and state officials have filed a handful price-gouging lawsuits against real estate agents, landlords and a large rental ...

Economists say the biggest problem with Kamala Harris' plan to crack down on price gouging is that there is no evidence that grocery prices have risen because food companies ... For example ...

Price Gouging Hits the Housing Market As California Wildfires Prevail Photo Illustration by Newsweek/Getty Images. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs ...

L.A. tenant rights advocates have also collected hundreds of examples of suspected price gouging in a spreadsheet to track post-fire rent hikes of more than 10%. New task force, ...

To address increased food and grocery prices, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has promised to enact a federal ban on price gouging. In an Aug. 16 press release, the campaign vowed to ...

Price gouging refers to a predatory practice when businesses charge excessively high prices on items that become scarce, such as after an extreme weather event, for example.

When do price gouging laws come into effect? The state’s law against price gouging under Penal Code Section 396 kicks in when a statewide or local state of emergency is declared — which happened on ...

Zoe Weber, who submitted a few examples of possible price gouging to the L.A. Tenants Union's spreadsheet, also sent text messages to agents and landlords, warning them that they could be ...

For example, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein posted on X that his office received over 100 price-gouging complaints following Hurricane Helene, particularly related to fuel, groceries ...

Price gouging is both difficult to define and difficult to counter. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ... for example. Maybe they can get by with three instead of five or 10.

For example, Florida and North Carolina, two states heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, are among the 37 states that already have anti-price gouging laws.