• AEMP
  • List of Maps
    • Affordability
    • Evictions
    • Demographic Maps
    • Development and Speculation
    • Historical Context
    • Narratives
    • Public Space
    • Surveillance and Violence
    • Tech and Displacement
  • Resources / Recursos
    • Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
    • How to Research / Cómo Investigar
    • AEMP Handbook
    • Rent Control in California
    • Look up Eviction History of a Building
    • Evictors Political Contributions
    • How Speculation Works
    • Organizations / Organizaciones
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  • Reports
    • Disrupting Displacement Financing in Oakland and Beyond, with CRC, 2018
    • California Evictions are Fast and Furious, 2018, with Tenants Together
    • Counterpoints - Alameda County Report, 2016, Online Version
    • Counterpoints Alameda County Report PDF, w Tenants Together, 2016
    • San Mateo Eviction Report, 2016, with CLESPA and San Mateo Legal Aide
    • SF 2016 Eviction Report, with the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • SF Relocation, 2016, with the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • SF 2015 Eviction Report w the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • Killed by Police, SF and Oakland
    • 2015 SF Eviction Crisis, with the Anti-Displacement Coalition
    • SF Owner-Move-In Evictions, 2014
    • SF Speculator Loophole, with Tenants Together, 2014
    • SF 2014 Eviction Report with Eviction Defense Collaborative Report
    • SF Airbnb Report, 2014
  • Writing
    • This Is Not An Atlas
    • The Digital Humanities, American Studies, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
    • Eviction Lab Misses the Mark
    • Countermapping Displacement and Resistance in Alameda County with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
    • On YIMBY and NIMBY Racisms
    • The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
    • AEMP Handbook
    • Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Throughout California
    • In the Time of Trump: Whiteness, Housing, and Abolition
    • Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0
    • AEMP Handbook
    • OBJECTIVITÉ DANS L’ACTION ET CARTOGRAPHIE COLLECTIVE DANS LE SAN FRANCISCO NÉOLIBÉRAL. DU TRAVAIL DU COLLECTIF ANTI-EVICTION MAPPING PROJECT
    • You Can't Evict a Movement: Strategies for Housing Justice in the United States
    • Zine: We Are Here - Oral Histories of San Francisco
    • San Francisco Tech Bus Stops, Displacement, and Architectures of Racial Capitalism
  • Help Stop Evictions
    • Help fund our work!
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    • Track illegal vacation rentals
    • DontBeAwful
  • Narratives
    • About the Narratives of Displacement Oral History Project
    • Bay Area Narratives of Displacement and Resistance
    • Los Angeles Narratives Map
    • Alameda Videos
    • SOTA Collaboration - San Francisco Videos
    • Counterpoints Video
    • Saito Collab
    • Alameda Oral History Mapping
    • UC Berkeley Story Mapping
    • Oral History Interviews
    • Listen to the Silence 2017 - The LTS Dance Project
    • Oakland Community Power Map
    • Land of Opportunity
    • Mural in Clarion Alley
    • We Belong Here
    • Bay Area Youth Power Map
    • Ghost Story Campfire Night
    • Hello Ed Lee
    • Luis Gongora
    • Video of Maps
    • Video about Youth Power Mapping
  • Share Your Story
    • Crowdsourced Eviction Map
    • Oakland Community Power Map
    • Small Business and New Development Survey
    • Lost Art Spaces
    • Eviction Survey / Encuesta / 調查
    • Report on Illegal Vacation Rentals
  • Forces of Gentrification
    • Disclaimer
    • Displacement in Oakland
    • Bay Area Evictors
    • Airbnb/VRBO (SF)
    • Wall Street Landlords, California
    • Blackstone Properties, CA
    • Ron Conway Mapped
    • Dirty Developers (SF)
    • Political Money (SF)
    • First Republic Bank SF and Oakland
    • Counterpoints - Alameda Count Report, 2016
    • After the Ellis Eviction
  • Donate!
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
  • AEMP
  • List of Maps
    • Affordability
    • Evictions
    • Demographic Maps
    • Development and Speculation
    • Historical Context
    • Narratives
    • Public Space
    • Surveillance and Violence
    • Tech and Displacement
  • Resources / Recursos
    • Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
    • How to Research / Cómo Investigar
    • AEMP Handbook
    • Rent Control in California
    • Look up Eviction History of a Building
    • Evictors Political Contributions
    • How Speculation Works
    • Organizations / Organizaciones
    • Prints
    • Reading List from the Oakland School
    • Anti-Imperial Reading List from Stop Displacement
  • About
    • About / Acerca de Nosotros
    • Blog
    • Video of Maps
    • Press Coverage
    • Contact / Contáctenos
    • Newsletters
    • Sign up for our mailing list!
    • Donate
  • Reports
    • Disrupting Displacement Financing in Oakland and Beyond, with CRC, 2018
    • California Evictions are Fast and Furious, 2018, with Tenants Together
    • Counterpoints - Alameda County Report, 2016, Online Version
    • Counterpoints Alameda County Report PDF, w Tenants Together, 2016
    • San Mateo Eviction Report, 2016, with CLESPA and San Mateo Legal Aide
    • SF 2016 Eviction Report, with the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • SF Relocation, 2016, with the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • SF 2015 Eviction Report w the Eviction Defense Collaborative
    • Killed by Police, SF and Oakland
    • 2015 SF Eviction Crisis, with the Anti-Displacement Coalition
    • SF Owner-Move-In Evictions, 2014
    • SF Speculator Loophole, with Tenants Together, 2014
    • SF 2014 Eviction Report with Eviction Defense Collaborative Report
    • SF Airbnb Report, 2014
  • Writing
    • This Is Not An Atlas
    • The Digital Humanities, American Studies, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
    • Eviction Lab Misses the Mark
    • Countermapping Displacement and Resistance in Alameda County with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
    • On YIMBY and NIMBY Racisms
    • The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice
    • AEMP Handbook
    • Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Throughout California
    • In the Time of Trump: Whiteness, Housing, and Abolition
    • Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0
    • AEMP Handbook
    • OBJECTIVITÉ DANS L’ACTION ET CARTOGRAPHIE COLLECTIVE DANS LE SAN FRANCISCO NÉOLIBÉRAL. DU TRAVAIL DU COLLECTIF ANTI-EVICTION MAPPING PROJECT
    • You Can't Evict a Movement: Strategies for Housing Justice in the United States
    • Zine: We Are Here - Oral Histories of San Francisco
    • San Francisco Tech Bus Stops, Displacement, and Architectures of Racial Capitalism
  • Help Stop Evictions
    • Help fund our work!
    • Pledge / Look up Eviction History Map
    • Track illegal vacation rentals
    • DontBeAwful
  • Narratives
    • About the Narratives of Displacement Oral History Project
    • Bay Area Narratives of Displacement and Resistance
    • Los Angeles Narratives Map
    • Alameda Videos
    • SOTA Collaboration - San Francisco Videos
    • Counterpoints Video
    • Saito Collab
    • Alameda Oral History Mapping
    • UC Berkeley Story Mapping
    • Oral History Interviews
    • Listen to the Silence 2017 - The LTS Dance Project
    • Oakland Community Power Map
    • Land of Opportunity
    • Mural in Clarion Alley
    • We Belong Here
    • Bay Area Youth Power Map
    • Ghost Story Campfire Night
    • Hello Ed Lee
    • Luis Gongora
    • Video of Maps
    • Video about Youth Power Mapping
  • Share Your Story
    • Crowdsourced Eviction Map
    • Oakland Community Power Map
    • Small Business and New Development Survey
    • Lost Art Spaces
    • Eviction Survey / Encuesta / 調查
    • Report on Illegal Vacation Rentals
  • Forces of Gentrification
    • Disclaimer
    • Displacement in Oakland
    • Bay Area Evictors
    • Airbnb/VRBO (SF)
    • Wall Street Landlords, California
    • Blackstone Properties, CA
    • Ron Conway Mapped
    • Dirty Developers (SF)
    • Political Money (SF)
    • First Republic Bank SF and Oakland
    • Counterpoints - Alameda Count Report, 2016
    • After the Ellis Eviction
  • Donate!

Precarious Housing: The Loss of SRO Hotels in Oakland

The Housing Crisis in Oakland, CA reaches across social sectors, with the most vulnerable populations suffering the most at the hands of speculators and flawed policies. This map explores Single Room Occupancy hotels in the context of  the "hottest" speculative real estate "market" in the U.S. 

Alameda County Foreclosures and Redlining

Alameda County Foreclosures visualized and analyzed in relation to 1939 redlining maps. 

Michael Marr's "Community"

Michael Marr and his Community Fund LLCs acquired over 1500 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Neill Sullivan/REO Homes

The list of Oakland properties in the hands of Neil Sullivan’s LLCs is staggering.  According to Rent Board data, Sullivan served over 357 eviction notices in five years. Reo Homes acquired hundreds of Oakland single family homes in the foreclosure crisis.

Oakland Homeless Encampments

The Rise of Homeless Encampments in Oakland

As reported to Public Works

Top Oakland Evictors

Dirty Dozen Squared: Top 144 Evictors per notices filed with the Oakland Rent Board

First Republic Bank Oakland

AEMP analysis suggests that First Republic Bank has originated hundreds of loans to property owners in Oakland notorious for evictions.


Danny Haber and Alon Gutman

Starting in San Francisco as an illegal sublettor of a small apartment, Haber moved into Oakland with financial backing and has managed to displace hundreds of people in artist housing, small apartments and SRO hotels. Haber markets the properties he manages as “tech dorms” and has passed himself off as a developer through the Gutman app “OWow.”

JDW Enterprises

Justin Douglas Wallway is attempting to use the "substantial rehab" loophole to displace tenants in 13 buildings in Oakland

Seth Jacobson

Owner of warehouses in Oakland, Jacobson lets property fall into disrepair.  Lately he has been emptying buildings of tenants in order to convert to market rate units.

Noel Yi

Noel Yi, Oakland speculator is trying to evict the Afrikatown Community Garden.

Frederick O. Lewis

Profiting from Poverty

Transfer of Ownership, 2015-2017

Transfer of Ownership, Oakland, 2015-2017

Oakland Unlawful Detainer Evictions

Unlawful Detainer Evictions mapped in Oakland, from 2005-2016. For analysis, read our report here. 

JS Kalmbach

After purchasing a mansion in Piedmont, JS Kalmbach doubled rents on low income households in East Oakland.

Anthony & Patricia Theophilos

Anthony Theophilos is a real estate attorney who sits on the Piedmont Planning Commission, acts as a court-appointed receiver for distressed properties, and advises and publishes on real estate matters for the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB).  Patricia Theophilos is a senior banking executive and consultant, having worked at Bank of the Orient, US Bank, Pacific National Bank and Citicorp Real Estate. Together and through their LLCs, they have served 217 eviction notices on their three Oakland properties. 

The Taplins

The Taplins are associated with at least 555 Oakland evictions under numerous LLCs.  The Taplins are also launching large market rate development projects in East Oakland.

Sridhar Equities, LLC

The Sridhars own property all over the bay area, including one building in Alameda with 33 families, whom the Sridhars saw fit to evict en mass. 

William Rosetti

William J. Rosetti is associated with over one hundred companies, LLCs and real estate partnerships across the San Francisco Bay Area.  Rosetti's companies are associated with over 4000 eviction notices in Alameda County over a five year period, and more than 500 Unlawful Detainers over ten years.  Rosetti sits on Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s “Housing Cabinet”

Oakland Evictions, Median Rent Increase, and Loss of Black Population

Map detailing Oakland Rent Board evictions, 2009-2015, Median income rent increase, 2009-2015, and Loss of Black Population 2010-2014

Oakland Police Dept. Deaths

Murders by the Oakland Police Department mapped. Also includes stories on each person killed. More here.

Prana Investments

Prana Investments is associated with close to 1000 evictions in Oakland

Oakland Nuisance Evictions

Oakland Nuisance Reports 2008-2016

Oakland Community Power Map

Oakland Community Power Map. Contribute community assets here.

Public Space, Oakland

Loss of public space in Oakland, mapped.

A key piece of a thriving community is common space. Meanwhile, Oakland is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by the force of gentrification. Wealthier, newer, and whiter voices in Oakland are being heard over those who grew up in the space themselves. Therefore, Oakland’s public spaces are under attack, becoming further privatized and restrictive to certain (whiter) groups and not others. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project highlights these processes taking place in Oakland in order to educate and therefore resist.

Loss of Black Population, Oakland

Race and Ethnicity Populations Shifts: One of the effects of gentrification is the replacement of exactly the populations of people who breathed life in, inhabited, and given life to a community. New residents are welcomed in based primarily on the extent of their economic privilege, while the cultural and community goods established residents cultivated are discounted. In the United States, the African American/black population lies at the intersection of many different dimensions of disadvantage, and blacks have often disproportionately felt the displacing effects of gentrification. This dynamic is also clearly visible in Oakland. Between 2010 and 2014, Oakland lost 4% of its black population. The loss of the black population in Oakland is particularly felt as African Americans have been a central part of Oakland’s culture, identity, and voice for many generations now. Closer examination of the above map reveals the shifting demographic landscape of Oakland.

Loss of Section 8 Housing, Oakland

Section 8 Mapping:

Units were matched with their respective HUD defined Fair Market Rents (FMRs) to identify if someone with a voucher could afford to access (rent) them. This usability was averaged by block group to calculate voucher accessibility by neighborhood. Because the voucher amounts are not competitive with rents that landlords can get from non-voucher holders, once a neighborhood begins to experience investment, landlords stop accepting Section 8, thus forcing voucher holders to move to under-resourced sections of the city.

—Data obtained and analyzed by Matt Palm and Deb Neimeier of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at UC Davis

Oakland College Coliseum Prep Survey

When students at Coliseum College Prep, a public secondary school in East Oakland, conducted a survey to study the effects of gentrification in their own neighborhoods they also claimed control over their own stories and the stories of their friends, families, and neighbors. In coming together to conduct their survey, these students learned how to collect, analyze, and synthesize data into a multi-media report with policy recommendations from the perspectives of those most exposed to the changing geographies of Oakland. Below, we’ve highlighted some parts of their report that spotlight how Oaklanders perceive their changing neighborhoods, and what they think should be done to combat the negative effects of gentrification.

Oakland UDs and Rental Prices

Oakland UDs and Rental Prices mapped and charted, 2005-2016

Precarious Housing: The Loss of SRO Hotels in Oakland

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Alameda County Foreclosures and Redlining

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Michael Marr's "Community"

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Neill Sullivan/REO Homes

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Oakland Homeless Encampments

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Top Oakland Evictors

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First Republic Bank Oakland

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Danny Haber and Alon Gutman

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JDW Enterprises

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Noel Yi

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Frederick O. Lewis

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Transfer of Ownership, 2015-2017

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Oakland Unlawful Detainer Evictions

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JS Kalmbach

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Anthony & Patricia Theophilos

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The Taplins

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Sridhar Equities, LLC

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William Rosetti

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Oakland Evictions, Median Rent Increase, and Loss of Black Population

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Oakland Police Dept. Deaths

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Prana Investments

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Oakland Nuisance Evictions

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Oakland Community Power Map

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Public Space, Oakland

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Loss of Black Population, Oakland

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Loss of Section 8 Housing, Oakland

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Loss of Section 8 Housing, Oakland

Oakland College Coliseum Prep Survey

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Oakland UDs and Rental Prices

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