Mapping the Anti-Eviction Struggle in the San Francisco Bay Area

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a collective that uses data visualization, storytelling, and community collaboration to document and resist gentrification and displacement, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2013, AEMP investigates the intersections of real estate speculation, rising rents, evictions, and demographic change through both official data and community-sourced oral histories, surveys, and videos. Embracing feminist, antiracist, and decolonial perspectives, their work challenges dominant narratives and highlights the racialized and gendered dynamics of urban transformation, particularly affecting Black, Latinx, working-class communities, women, elders, and youth. Beyond mapping dispossession, AEMP creates counter-cartographies, murals, zines, and interactive projects that foreground personal and collective resistance. Initiatives like the Narratives of Displacement and Resistance oral history project and the Oakland Community Power Map emphasize storytelling, community assets, and political action. Their collaborations extend into cultural spaces, such as dance performances inspired by eviction narratives, and light projections that turn eviction stories into public interventions. Through these efforts, AEMP not only exposes the structural forces driving displacement but also builds tools for communities to fight back and imagine alternative urban futures.

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) collects and visualizes data on gentrification and displacement, combining official city records on rents, evictions, and demographics with community-sourced oral histories, surveys, videos, and collaborative mapping.

interactive digital maps, data visualizations, murals, light projections, zines, and oral history maps