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Rent gouging charges after the LA fires were rare. This Altadena couple is now filing their own case, LAist, May 2026.
Tenant organizers encourage people in LA to host letter-writing parties to help immigrant families stay in public housing, LA Public Press, March 2026.
Safe and Sheltered: How Tenant Organizers Protect Their Neighbors in Minneapolis, Shelterforce, February 2026.
Illegal price-gouging is rampant after disasters. Can it be stopped? Grist, August 2025.
Extreme Heat, KCRW’s Greater LA, July 2025.
LA County renters without AC swelter in heat waves with little recourse, study finds. That might change. LAist, July 2025.
L.A. temporarily bans evictions for renovations, Los Angeles Times, March 2025.
Tenants demand protections as LA fires exacerbate housing crisis: ‘Huge source of stress. The Guardian, February 2025.
Rent gouging in the Wake of Wildfires. 404 by Los Angeles Times, February 2025.
In L.A. County, price-gouging landlords could soon face fines of $50,000. Los Angeles Times, February 2025.
Volunteer rent gouging sleuths analyze listings. LAist, January 2025
Los Angeles' anti-rent gouging effort. NPR’s All Things Considered, January 2025.
Facing Wildfire and Rent Gouging, L.A. Tenants Are Fighting For Rent Control. Next City, January 2025.
In LA, a circulating spreadsheet of rent gouging allegations gains steam. SFGATE, January 2025
Signs of rent gouging rise across region in fires’ wake, bringing calls for enforcement. Los Angeles Times, January 2025
LA wildfires: Rents skyrocket as fire victims search for new homes. KCRW Press Play with Madeleine Brand, January 2025.
As Fires Rage, LA Activists Put Price Gouging Landlords on Notice. In These Times, January 2025.
Report: Statewide effort to decarbonize buildings may lead to mass evictions, rent hikes, Spectrum News 1, November 2023.
Protecting Tenants as Los Angeles Decarbonizes, Nonprofit Quarterly, April 2023.
Fareless Transit, KCRW, May 2023.
Cost of Decarbonization on LA Tenants, KCRW’s All Things Considered, Nov 2021.