First, fire, then the prices of rentals.

I'm David Brancaccio. The fires in Southern California have displaced tens of thousands of people.

By midweek, the total was estimated at 88,000 people evacuated from homes.

Some are in shelters with friends and family in motels, hotels, and Airbnbs.

For those with no home to return to,

the search is on for a place to live, especially adjacent to fire-ravaged areas. Altadena,

13 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, recent population 44,000, is a city where not hundreds, but thousands of homes were destroyed. Marketplaces Nova

Saffo spoke to a resident in search of a new apartment. I caught up with Claire Contreras as she was

driving from one temporary accommodation to another. She's an elementary school teacher. Her

husband, Michael, is a mental health therapist. Their one-bedroom apartment in Altadena burned down.

Claire's parents' house nearby was also destroyed. Our immediate plan is to find a place to live.

We're really trying to get on finding a long-term lease because everything's just going to start to fill up.

The landlords that we call and have been calling without tours say, you know,

they're just getting bombarded with, you know, hundreds, dozens of calls.

And so we're trying to get our foot in the door with the long-term lease.

We already saw it we're being priced out.

All of this just kind of puts a big question mark on our long-term

ability to even stay in L.A. Have you had the resources to deal with this? I mean, it's astonishing

when people, you know, lose their homes, the amount of financial resources they need just to get,

by even for a week,

what's that been like for you?

Yeah, we did have renter's insurance.

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