As wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles, a new threat has emerged to the 100,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes: landlords.
With some 12,000 structures burnt to the ground and many more too smoke damaged or imperiled to return to, desperate families looking for temporary homes are facing rocketing rents from unscrupulous agents and property owners. Asking rents have been put up by as much as 64 per cent since the disaster, per a report in the New York Times. But an unlikely folk hero has emerged: Jason Oppenheim, star of Selling Sunset.
