Tickets to watch the U.S. Men's National Team train will be distributed on May 29 through a random lottery. A couple who paid nearly $15,000 in monthly rent while displaced by the Eaton Fire are now taking their landlords to court, alleging they violated state and local bans on price gouging in the wake of a disaster.
Tickets to watch the U.S. Men's National Team train will be distributed on May 29 through a random lottery. Tickets to the U.S. Men's National training session in Irvine next month will be distributed at 10 a.m. Friday.
The event will take place from 9:30 a.m. to noon, June 8, at the Great Park in Irvine. It's a free event, but tickets are required. Due to the high demand, tickets will be distributed through a random lottery process, according to the city of Irvine. You must be registered to be considered in the lottery.
Winners will receive an email with instructions to log in and claim the tickets within 72 hours. If they are not claimed within that window, the tickets will be released. You'll receive a notification email saying so, but don't worry, you might have another chance. Tickets not claimed by 10 a.m. June 1 will be randomly distributed again on June 2.
A couple who paid nearly $15,000 in monthly rent while displaced by the Eaton Fire are now taking their landlords to court, alleging they violated state and local bans on price gouging in the wake of a disaster. The lawsuit filed Thursday arrives during the same week Los Angeles County is set to end its post-fire rent gouging protections. Over the last 16 months, prosecutors have filed a handful of criminal rent gouging charges.
But the couple's lawyer, Josh Nuni with the People's Law Project, said he's not aware of any other civil cases filed by private citizens following the Jan. 2025 fires. Tenant advocates have expressed disappointment over the lack of price gouging prosecution in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton fires. They said tenants are now taking action on their own because governments failed.
A couple who paid nearly $15,000 in monthly rent while displaced by the Eaton Fire are now taking their landlords to court, alleging they violated bans on price gouging in the wake of a disaster. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, during the same week the county is set to end its post-fire rent gouging protections.
But the couple's lawyer, Josh Nuni with the People's Law Project, said to his knowledge this is the first civil rent gouging case filed by private citizens following the January 2025 fires. They want to get back the money that was taken from them, and they also want to make sure to send a message to others that this shouldn't be done to other families when they're in times of crisis.
Candy Renick's home in Altadena was left standing after the Eaton Fire, but it was severely smoke damaged. Until it could be professionally cleaned, it would remain uninhabitable. Less than two weeks after the fires, Renick and her daughter spotted a new Zillow listing for a three-bedroom home in Glassell Park. She said the landlords were asking for $12,990 per month on a one-year lease.
When Renick and her husband asked for a shorter, six-month lease, the owners agreed to a higher monthly rent of $14,938.50, she said. I was telling friends what we were paying and everybody was like, 'Are you kidding? That is crazy.
' But we had to do it… We were just kind of desperate to get settled so that we could move on with our lives and move on with fixing our house. Once the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted on Jan. 7, 2025, state and local governments quickly passed emergency declarations that triggered price-gouging bans. These laws made it illegal for landlords to increase rents by more than 10% from pre-fire levels.
For properties that were not listed for rent before the fires, a different limit applied: Landlords offering furnished properties could not charge more than 165% of the area's fair market rent, as determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. For the ZIP code where the Glassell Park property is located, the legal monthly limit for a furnished three-bedroom unit was $5,032.50. The Renicks paid nearly triple that amount.
Shortly after moving in, the Renicks got a letter from the L.A. City Attorney's Office, according to the lawsuit. It alerted the tenants and the landlord that the listing may have violated post-fire rent gouging bans. The letter said if the landlords were violating the law, they should 'immediately lower the rental rate' and 'refund the tenant the overcharged amount plus 10 percent interest.
' According to the lawsuit, the Renicks texted a screenshot of this letter to their landlord, Catalina Chow, and she responded: We did not increase rent due to the state of emergency. When LAist called Chow to ask about the lawsuit, she picked up but said she was on another call and ended the conversation. LAist was later unable to reach her or Terrence Chow, another defendant named in the complaint.
LAist also contacted the City Attorney's Office to ask why it did not pursue the case beyond the warning letter. No one from the office responded. By the one-year anniversary of the fires, a group called The Rent Brigade had found more than 18,000 listings that appeared to have broken the law
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