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 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom extended price gouging protections on rental housing Thursday, while the state’s top law enforcement official vowed to crack down on landlords who are ignoring the rules ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office had received hundreds of reports of price gouging and had opened multiple investigations. "This is just unimaginable conduct during this time ...

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 ...

Landlords decide to raise them — and there’s evidence that’s happening all over LA right now, despite laws designed to prevent them from price-gouging during an emergency. See here ...

Temporary price-gouging protections in place because of the fires are supposed to stop such dramatic rent hikes, but a Times review of online listings this week indicate illegal increases are ...

Rent gouging is understood as the practice of setting rent prices too high or raising rent to an “unconscionable price.” According to the State of California Department of Justice ...

But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. "The price gouging is going haywire, it's obscene," the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. "I can't find anywhere for us to go." ...

The "Los Angeles County Fires and Windstorm Event" qualify. The state of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters and where price gouging is illegal under the statute Penal Code ...

As thousands of Californians flee the ongoing Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California, authorities are cracking down on potential price gouging. Under California Penal Code 396(c ...

who noted that his own office had yet to be presented by its law enforcement counterparts with price gouging cases, nevertheless explained that it would seek maximum punishment for such offensives ...

"It's called price gouging. It is illegal. You cannot do it. It is a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and fines." Prices should only be going up 10% or less from before the fire ...