la times: signs of rent gouging rise across region in fires’ wake, bringing calls for enforcement

January 15, 2025. “As fires continue to burn, tenant advocates and everyday people are scouring rental listing websites and compiling shareable databases of suspected gouging, sharing them with authorities and the press and on social media. Chelsea Kirk, an organizer overseeing one spreadsheet, said the practice appears ‘widespread and rampant’ and that people are venting their outrage directly to landlords and agents.”