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California’s Anti-Price Gouging Law Could Make It Harder for Victims of the Wildfires To Find Temporary Shelter

The emergency law caps rents to a ‘fair market value’ determined by HUD, but the caps are so low that many high-end homeowners are delaying putting their properties on the market lest they get prosecuted.

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Kevin Marshall sifts through his mother's fire-ravaged property at the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, January 11, 2025. AP/John Locher
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY

More than 11,000 homes have been destroyed so far by the Los Angeles wildfires — and California price-gouging laws may be making it harder for the people displaced to find temporary shelter.

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CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY

Ms. McCaughey is a native New Yorker who covers politics and policy. Her work has appeared in the New York Post, New York Daily News, Fox News, and other publications.

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