California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced charges against a La Cañada Flintridge real estate agent for allegedly raising the price of his rental by 38% after L.A.'s wildfires.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.

Tenant advocacy groups, landlord associations and elected officials are condemning rent gouging after tens of thousands of people were displaced in deadly fires this month.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned that price gouging beyond ... News outlet LAist found that one property in Bel Air was listed on Zillow for $29,500 per month as of January 11.

For one listing, rent jumped nearly 86% since September. In an interview with LAist, the agent said she told her client, “People are desperate, and you can probably get good money.”

Properties are on the market for thousands of dollars more than they were before the deadly wildfires broke out.

Newsweek found properties that jacked up their prices during the California wildfires raising concerns of potential price gouging.

Because California is in a state of emergency, laws targeting price-gouging, including a ban on landlords raising rents by more than 10 percent of pre-emergency levels, should be in effect. But that hasn't deterred some landlords from apparently raising their rents by far more than that,

The Los Angeles area wildfires that have devastated communities like Pacific Palisades and Altadena have prompted a spike in prices for rental housing, spurring price gouging concerns.

Recent wildfires in Southern California have left over 12,000 homes destroyed and thousands displaced, leading to a more competitive housing market. Reports of rent-gouging have emerged, prompting officials to enforce legal rent caps during the state of emergency.

"It's called price gouging. It is illegal. You cannot do it." Outrage ensues after LA landlords take advantage of fire evacuees with egregious rental prices: 'A crime punishable by up to a year in jail' first appeared on The Cool Down.

City officials are ramping up efforts to curb rent gouging following devastating firestorms that destroyed over 12,000 homes, displacing tens of thousands