• 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!
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!
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Twelve Ways Not to Be Awful, #DontBeAwful

 

  1. Don't rent or buy from a landlord/speculator/real estate agent who has profited off of displacing someone. Use our Pledge Map to look up addresses and pledge not to enable someone to capitalize off of the dispossession of someone else!
  2. Frequent local businesses that have been around for a while. Don't only go to the hippest and newest establishments. Many older businesses are not being frequented by newcomers to San Francisco and other urban spaces. This, coupled with skyrocketing rents, leads to not only the businesses shutting down, but business owners and employees not being able to afford to remain in the city.
  3. Get to know your neighbors.
  4. Support the unionization efforts of service workers at your workplace. Consider what it would mean to unionize employees out of the service sector as well. Check out SEIU-USWW for more info.
  5. Don't kick youth off of soccer fields and playgrounds.
  6. Learn the history of your city and neighborhood, from the Ohlone and other indigenous peoples to the present. Shaping SF has some great resources!
  7. Don't call the cops on your neighbor. See the Justice for Alex Nieto Committee for more!
  8. Support open source technologies and companies/organizations that don't profit by surveilling you and selling your data.
  9. Organize against the military technologies that tech companies produce and abet in.
  10. Demand that your company pay its taxes to the country, state, and city that it resides within. Apple is off-stating money from California in Nevada. Airbnb owes SF $25 million in back hotel taxes. The list goes on.
  11. Study histories of gentrification, not only in the city that you live in, but in different spaces across the US and beyond. Learn about intersections of racism and displacement.
  12. Aid existing groups' efforts to fight against displacement, such as Eviction Free SF. There are countless groups in the Bay Area that need more physical support. It seems that those in tech are always trying to start new projects. First, get to know the terrain in which you are working. Perhaps an app can help address the problem, but most likely the problem will be better solved if you first get to know those being impacted by the problem, and if you get to know what community efforts of addressal are already underway. Not everything needs to become an app. Some struggles need more labor power, and more protestors in the streets. Often in virtually privileged spaces we forget that collectives of material bodies can go a long way in fighting back against systems of oppression.

Take a pledge to boycott those who profit off of dispossession.