Tenants are inundating government and non-government agencies with complaints of price gouging, according to the Housing Rights Center. A review of Zillow listings by The New York Times found that ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday his office is actively investigating and preparing criminal charges against landlords, real estate agents and other businesses that have raised ...

The state of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters and where price gouging is illegal under the statute Penal Code 396. “Gouging” is defined as raising the rent − or ...

Not everyone thinks bigger fines will fix the problem. Chelsea Kirk, who tracks price gouging through a crowdsourced spreadsheet, points to weak enforcement. "We're in week four of the wildfire ...

The most vapid piece we’ve seen comes from the Washington Post, which despite its headquarters 2,700 miles away, recently published a piece on L.A.-area rental price gouging. The headline is ...

More than 100,000 Angelenos had to evacuate their homes. Among examples cited by the city attorney’s office of price-gouging by Blueground, the monthly rent for an apartment in North Hollywood ...

Jason Oppenheim, star of Netflix's "Selling Sunset," has accused Los Angeles landlords of illegally price gouging rental rates amid the city's devastating fires. In an interview with the BBC's ...

And the five supervisors didn’t just leave it at that. They voted to increase the civil penalty for anyone caught price gouging during the fire emergency from $10,000 to $50,000 per violation.