- After the wildfires ravaged whole swaths of Los Angeles, residents are battling a second crisis: finding temporary shelter amid rampant price gouging.
Redfin chief executive Glenn Kelman said one of his agents lost her home to the fires that tore through Los Angeles. She found a home for rent, listed at $5,600 a month, he said. But when she called, the landlord had nearly doubled the price to $11,000 a month. So she drove down the southern California coast to search for a hotel in Orange County.
