Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

What Anti-Eviction Mapping Project does

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a volunteer-run data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco. It documents eviction, displacement, and gentrification across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, and a growing number of additional US cities plus Mexico City, producing interactive web maps, research tools, narrative multimedia, murals, reports, zines, and documentary film. Its core products include Evictorbook (an automated landlord research tool for San Francisco and Oakland that exposes property ownership behind LLCs), the COVID-19 Housing Protection Map (a global map of pandemic-era tenant protections and housing justice actions), Landlord Tech Watch (a crowdsourced map of landlord surveillance technology), oral history maps, Ellis Act eviction maps for SF and LA, the Worst Evictors databases, the Wall Street Landlords database, the Tenant Power Toolkit, and the Tenants Rise Up! documentary film and Counterpoints Atlas of Displacement and Resistance.

Name

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Website

https://antievictionmap.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

A volunteer-run nonprofit collective producing interactive maps, data tools, oral histories, and documentary media to document evictions, displacement, and landlord surveillance for tenants, organizers, and housing justice movements across multiple US cities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Housing Justice Advocacy and Mapping

NAICS

Community Housing Services (62422)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Development & Neighborhood Revitalization Housing Programs (FSALAKAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs) (BPAIACAJ), Housing Policy, Standards & Fair Housing Enforcement (BPAIANAG)

Keywords

• Eviction mapping tools
• Tenant advocacy data
• Housing displacement maps
• Landlord research tools
• Critical cartography projects

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: All donations are tax deductible as the organization is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media. No commercial revenue streams.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a volunteer-run data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective that produces interactive web maps, GIS databases, software tools, oral history narratives, murals, reports, zines, and documentary films documenting evictions, displacement, and tenant resistance in gentrifying urban areas. Its core tools include Evictorbook (landlord research automation for SF and Oakland), Ellis Act eviction maps for San Francisco and Los Angeles, a residential housing ownership map, Worst Evictors databases, the COVID-19 Housing Protection Map, Landlord Tech Watch, and Oral History multimedia maps, all offered free to tenants and housing justice advocates.

Product overview

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective that produces a portfolio of interactive mapping tools, databases, narrative multimedia works, and research publications. Its core offerings include: Evictorbook (a landlord research automation tool for SF and Oakland), Landlord Tech Watch (a crowdsourced surveillance tech reporting map), interactive Ellis Act eviction maps for multiple cities, oral history maps combining multimedia narratives with geographic visualization, Worst Evictors databases for various regions, the Covid-19 Housing Protection Map, the Tenant Power Toolkit legal resource, and documentary films and zines. The portfolio functions as an integrated toolkit for housing justice organizing, with maps serving as the primary interface for data exploration while companion tools provide research automation, legal resources, and narrative documentation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Evictorbook

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Community Partners (Various)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorking with a broad network of community partners including tenant unions, housing advocacy organizations, and community groups in their operational areas. These partnerships are essential to their model of producing tools and resources in solidarity with housing movements.
• Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing & Displacement (BHAAAD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Against The Artwashing of Boyle Heights project documenting galleries and displacement in Los Angeles. BHAAAD contributed archive and knowledge while AEMP provided mapping and visualization tools.
• Regional Tenants Organizing NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with the Regional Tenants Organizing Network to produce the Tenants Rise Up! documentary film about housing justice in the Bay Area.
• Independent Arts & MediacoreOthersFiscal sponsor for the organization, allowing donations to be tax-deductible. Provides administrative and financial infrastructure for the all-volunteer project.
• Right to the City AllianceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a resource partner on the Resources page, connecting tenants to national housing justice network.
• Autonomous Tenants Union NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a resource partner connecting to tenant organizing network.
• Tenant Power ToolkitminorOthersPartner resource providing legal tools for tenants to fight evictions.
• California Tenant ProtectionsminorOthersResource partner connecting to state-level tenant protection information.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• LA Tenants Union: Los Angeles tenant union focused on tenant rights and collective action in LA — one of AEMP's core geographic markets. Comparable grassroots tenant-advocacy model with overlapping Ellis Act and displacement work.
• Right to the City Alliance: National housing justice network organizing against gentrification and displacement. AEMP is a resource partner; the alliance operates a similar grassroots housing-advocacy model with comparable target populations and movement-building approach.
• Urban Displacement Project: UC Berkeley-based research initiative producing data and mapping tools on gentrification, displacement, and housing trends in California. Directly comparable to AEMP's GIS-based housing justice mapping work and serves overlapping policy/research audiences.
• Tenants Together: California statewide coalition for tenants' rights providing policy advocacy and tenant protection resources. Comparable in mission and target audience (California tenants) with overlapping policy and tenant-protection focus areas.
• Oakland Tenants Union: Oakland-based tenant rights organization providing rent adjustment program support and tenant organizing. Operates in a shared geography with AEMP and serves the same primary user base of tenants facing displacement.
• Anti-Eviction Campaign (San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition): SF-based coalition working on anti-displacement policy and tenant organizing in San Francisco. Directly comparable mission, geography, and tenant-support toolset, and listed as a resource partner on AEMP's site.
• Tenant Power Toolkit: California tenant legal-tools project including the Unlawful Detainer Answer Tool. Listed as a resource partner by AEMP; operates complementary free-tools-for-tenants model in the same California jurisdiction.
• Regional Tenant Organizing Network: Bay Area tenant organizing network that co-produced AEMP's Tenants Rise Up! documentary. Directly comparable tenant organizing mission across the Bay Area with overlapping partnerships and audiences.

Emerging players

• JustFix: NYC-based nonprofit building tenant-facing technology tools (auto-seeding repair requests, building ownership lookup, eviction data) for housing justice. Highly comparable product strategy to AEMP's Evictorbook and maps, though focused on NYC and operating with paid staff.

Regional players

• Anti-Displacement Network (Seattle): Seattle-area coalition addressing displacement in Puget Sound region. Comparable anti-displacement mission in a city where AEMP operates, though focused exclusively on the Seattle regional market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

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Investors

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