{"id":30340,"date":"2025-01-13T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/la-officials-warn-of-price-gouging-as-those-displaced-by-fire-seek-housing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T05:15:55","slug":"la-officials-warn-of-price-gouging-as-those-displaced-by-fire-seek-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/la-officials-warn-of-price-gouging-as-those-displaced-by-fire-seek-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County sheriff says anyone who tries to scam the thousands of people looking for accommodations will be prosecuted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/12\/california-fires-death-toll-expected-rise-ucla-threatened-winds-latest-updates\">Wildfires live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Los Angeles authorities are warning against scams and price gouging as thousands of displaced families seek new accommodations as a result of the wildfires that devastated whole neighborhoods and forced the evacuation of others.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Sunday, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna warned against \u201canyone taking advantage of anyone who\u2019s been victimized already, whether it is burglary looting, or any other crime, whether it\u2019s a scam of some kind that you\u2019re conjuring up to make money off of the poor people that have been involved in this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/12\/california-wildfires-housing-price-gouging-scams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County sheriff says anyone who tries to scam the thousands of people looking for accommodations will be prosecuted Wildfires live updates Los Angeles authorities are warning against scams and price gouging as thousands of displaced families seek new accommodations as a result of the wildfires that devastated whole neighborhoods and forced the evacuation of others. &#8230; <a title=\"LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/la-officials-warn-of-price-gouging-as-those-displaced-by-fire-seek-housing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}