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Landlords are price gouging wildfire victims (archive.ph)

submitted 1 day ago by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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An excerpt from the article:

Ms. Jones has been scouring the West Los Angeles rental market to find a house that the family could rent for the next eight months, or longer. On Friday morning, she noticed something disturbing on the rents of at least three of the properties she had been tracking: 15 to 20 percent increases overnight.

The sudden surge in rental costs took Ms. Jones by surprise, but aligned with what she has noticed since wildfires started to tear through the Los Angeles area on Tuesday. Ms. Jones was touring a rental house in Beverly Hills with her client on Thursday when the listing agent raised the monthly cost by $3,000 — on the spot. Agents and landlords are aware that some displaced Angelenos might be willing to pay given the circumstance.

“People are so panicked and desperate to get into a house right now that they’re just throwing money into the wind,” Ms. Jones said. “People taking advantage of this. It’s horrendous.”

And now, totally unrelated to this, the definition of "parasitism":

Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 83 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm a little horrified that a 15-20% hike is $3000.

That's uh, well, even before the price hike that makes me feel very Luigi....

[–] protist@mander.xyz 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The people who are looking for a rental in this article and who lost their Pacific Palisades home make an order of magnitude more money than you or I would ever expect to make

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

The indignity of living 6-figure paycheck to 6-figure paycheck.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The rich are surprised because now -they- are the ones being taken advantage of.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

What's this? The consequences of my lifestyle choices and actions??? But I was assured the lepards wouldn't eat MY face!!! I'm one of the lepards!!!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love that Luigi is a verb now.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*adjective

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

*adverb - "Luigi" is modifying the verb "feel", not a noun

[–] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It's not modifying "feel," it's the object of "feel." It functions in that capacity as an adjective. You could make it an adverb by changing it to "makes me Luigily feel."

In "I would happily feel happy," happily is an adverb and happy is an adjective, for example.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

That's a lot of coins. Makes me bump my head on question mark blocks.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah these people clearly have (many) other options for housing.

Honestly not sure why this article even exists if this is the most egregious example of price gouging they could find.