Press Coverage
NYC Police and Landlords Are Turning to Surveillance Tech to Expand Their Reach, Truthout, April 9, 2023
In New York City, surveillance technology expands the carceral state, PRISM, April 5, 2023
The tragic toxic legacy of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, 48hills, March 1, 2023
Rent registry fee reimbursement available to low-income tenants in Berkeley, The Daily Californian, Feb 20, 2023
Three LA City Councilmembers want lawyers provided to tenants in eviction court, USC Annenberg Media, Feb 11, 2023
Meet The Spy Tech Companies Helping Landlords Evict People, VICE Motherboard, Jan 4, 2023
To Address Homeless Crisis, Mayor Karen Bass Needs to Focus on Causes, LA Progressive, Dec 22, 2022
New tool for housing organizers aims to reveal landlord webs in S.F., San Francisco Examiner, Oct 18, 2022
Housing Advocates Release Database of Serial Evictors for Tenants, VICE Motherboard, Oct 17, 2022
New rental information exposes unfair housing practices, KALW Public Media, Oct 12, 2022
Evictorbook Tool for Researching Your Landlord, San Francisco Tenants Union, Oct 11, 2022
Housing Activists Launch 'Evictorbook' To Highlight Landlord Eviction Histories In Sf, Oakland, SF Gate, Oct 11, 2022
These 12 secret power players are shaping the Bay Area housing market, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 20, 2022
Got an eviction notice? This California website will help you file a response, Desert Sun, Jul 19, 2022
CA Lawyers Launch First-Ever Website to Help Tenants Fight Evictions, Los Angeles Magazine, Jul 19, 2022
Report: As Berkeley Densifies, Tenant Protections Needed to Avoid Displacement, Berkleyside, Apr 08, 2022
A Berkeley Activist's Diary, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Apr 04, 2022
Cities Give Housing Technology a Wary Reappraisal, Bloomberg CityLab, Mar 29, 2022
Economic Security Project Awards Grant to UT Faculty for Landlord Tech Watch, UT Research Showcase, University of Texas at Austin, Mar 01, 2022
Press Conference Demands the City Take Action on Flawed Housing Voucher Programs, Amsterdam News, Feb 17, 2022
Carrión Takes Helm at NYC Housing Agency After Stint as ‘Worst Evictor’ Consultant, City Limits, Feb 15, 2022
S.F. Native Plans Move to New Mexico After Eviction. Can a New Bill Keep Other Renters in the City? San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 18, 2022
Queens Landlords Land on Nonprofit’s ‘Worst Evictors’ List, Queens Daily Eagle, Dec 16, 2021
For Utah Renters, a 3-Day Eviction Notice Often Shows Up Before Federally Mandated 30-Day Notice, The Salt Lake Tribune, Nov 2, 2021
How Technology Can Hold Bad Landlords and Developers Accountable, The Real Deal, Oct 8, 2021
The Tech that Slumlords Hate, Bloomberg CityLab, Oct 7, 2021
Erin McElroy on Counterpoints; PLUS Mitch Jeserich on Congress, and Dr. John Swartzberg on COVID, 94.1 KPFA, Sept 28, 2021
America’s Housing Crisis Is a Choice, New York Times, Aug 10, 2021
New Interactive Map: This Should Be Housing, Halifax Examiner, Aug 5, 2021
New Mapping Effort Pinpoints Housing Opportunities, The Coast Halifax, Aug 4, 2021
New Report Shows Rising Ellis Act Evictions in LA, BeyondChron, Jul 27, 2021
Developments in Development: Uptown Bar’s Building for Sale, ‘La Muerte’ Plans to Grow, ‘Merry-Go-Round House’ Grand Reopening, Mission Local, Jun 25, 2021
Are Wall Street Hedge Funds Buying Up Homes in the Bay Area? San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 21, 2021
Who Should Be Monitoring the Rise of “Landlord Tech”? Dublin InQuirer, May 26, 2021
America Can’t Just Build Its Way Out of an Eviction Crisis, Slate, May 06, 2021
Airbnbs in Los Angeles Are Not Going Away, Knock LA, Apr 25, 2021
This Website Records Slum Lives, Evictions to Tackle Housing Crisis, Deccan Herald, Apr 23, 2021
Portal to Map Evictions in Delhi Since 1990, Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2021
Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective, Metro Politics, Apr 13, 2021
Ellis Act Evictions Targeted in California Legislature: New Bill Would Sharply Limit Them. San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 31, 2021
Keeping an Eye on Landlord Tech, Shelterforce, Mar 25, 2021
Lee Introduces AB 854 to Protect CA Tenants, BeyondChron, Mar 23, 2021
When Predatory Practices Catch Up: Sacramento’s Largest Corporate Landlord May Be Forced to Pay Millions to Struggling Renters, Sacramento News & Review, Mar 18, 2021
A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, Boom California, Feb 27, 2021
Surveillance Perspectives: Who’s Watching Us?, Good Systems, Feb 26, 2021
Red House Puts Fresh Spotlight on Militant Housing Activism, But it’s Nothing New for Portland, Street Roots, Jan 20, 2021
The People’s WPA Isn’t Waiting Around for a Future 'New Deal', KQED, Jan 14, 2021
Legislator Needed to Introduce Ellis Act Reform Bill to Protect the State’s Most Vulnerable Tenants, Cal Matters, Jan 04, 2021
All-Women Tech Group Launches New Tool to End Rental Voucher Discrimination, The Indypendant, Dec 31, 2020
Facial Recognition Legislation Rolls on in New Orleans and Oakland, Boston Celtics Players Urge Passage, BiometricUpdate, Dec 21, 2020
The Real Resistance Begins Now: 25 Groups That Will Keep Fighting No Matter Who’s President, CounterPunch, Dec 18, 2020
CA’s Eviction Moratorium Must Include Ellis Act, BeyondChron, Dec 15, 2020
Surveillance Technology Seen Worsening U.S. Eviction Crisis, Reuters, Dec 14, 2020
The CDC Eviction Moratorium Is About To Expire. What Will It Take To Prevent Mass Evictions?, KALW, Dec 10, 2020
Op-Ed: UCLA Must Divest from Systems of Policing, Adopt New Model for Safety and Justice, Daily Bruin, Dec 08, 2020
This Online Activism Class will Teach Tech Workers how to ‘Remake Their Companies from Below’, Fast Company, Dec 03, 2020
YATA Fights for Right of Return to RSO Units, Knock LA, Dec 01, 2020
Black and Latino Renters Face Eviction, Exclusion Amid Police Crackdowns in California, LA Times, Nov 19, 2020
Classy Classes: URBANST 164 Offers Community-Driven Sustainability Approach, Stanford Daily, Nov 17, 2020
464 Evictions Since 2000: How Ellis Act Displacements are Priming East Hollywood for a Latinx and Asian Removal Project, Knock LA, Nov 12, 2020
Jackie Robinson Stadium: Prisoners Made Here, Knock LA, Nov 11, 2020
Vacant Housing and Homelessness in LA, CounterPunch, Oct 06, 2020
Tenants’ Union Rebuffs Landlord’s Attempt at Eviction, Post News Group, Oct 06, 2020
Vacant Housing, Inequality.org, Oct 02, 2020
Big Real Estate Escapes $360 Million in Annual SF Taxes, 48 Hills, Sept 30, 2020
StoneLock GM Discusses Privacy Features in Biometric Property Technology as Market Heats Up, BiometricUpdate, Sept 11, 2020
City of Montreal Buys Hutchison Plaza in Parc-Ex for Social Housing, Global News, Sept 09, 2020
Property Tech Companies are Helping Landlords Spy on Residents, Collect their Data, and Even Evict Them. Critics are Calling it an Invasion of Privacy that could Reinforce Inequality., Business Insider, Sept 03, 2020
Eviction Moratorium Delays Crisis Until January, When Tenants Will Owe Back Rent, Truth Out, Sept 02, 2020
Can We Prevent a Surge in Pandemic-Related Homelessness?, World Economic Forum, Aug 21, 2020
Crowdsourced Map Warns Tenants Where 'Landlord Tech' Is Being Used, ScreenRant, Aug 19, 2020
This Map Lets You Report Landlords Using Tech to Screw Over Tenants, VICE, Aug 18, 2020
Landlord Tech Watch Project Maps Where Landlords May Be Using Tech to Spy on Tenants, Venture Beat, Aug 17, 2020
Tracing the Invisible Danger of Household Crowding, Bloomberg City Lab, Jul 21, 2020
The Government is Walking Blind Into the Coronavirus Housing Crisis, The New Republic, Jul 13, 2020
Eviction Friction, Manhattan Times, Jun 17, 2020
As Market Rate Renters Keep Up Payments, Worry Grows for the Rest, Real Estate Weekly, Jun 16, 2020
Housing in Brief: Bracing for a New Eviction Crisis, Next City, May 29, 2020
COVID-19 Crisis Capitalism Comes to Real Estate, Boston Review, May 07, 2020
Tenants of One of Oakland’s Biggest Evictors are Organizing, Post News Group, May 07, 2020
As May Bills Come Due, Calls for Rent and Mortgage Forgiveness Increase, SF Examiner, Apr 30, 2020
What to Know About Housing and Rent During the COVID-19 Emergency, Next City, Apr 21, 2020
Coronavirus Does Not Slow Developers Filing Ellis Act Applications to Evict Tenants, City Watch LA, Apr 20, 2020
Echoing Tenant Demands, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Supports Eminent Domain for Hillside Villa Housing Complex, Knock LA, Feb 25, 2020
California Stories Told and Untold Through Maps, in ‘You Are Here,’ Next City, Feb 24, 2020
2019: Another Year of Displacement & Demolitions Due to the Ellis Act, City Watch LA, Jan 23, 2020
LA Tenants Union Puts Repealing the Ellis Act on the Table, Knock LA, Dec 09, 2019
Parc-Extension Struggles to Keep Its Identity Amidst Major Changes, The Link Newspaper, Nov 05, 2019
These NYC Landlords Evict The Most Tenants, Advocates Say, Patch, Oct 22, 2019
Hundreds of NYCHA Evictions Raise Questions About Process, City Limits, Aug 14, 2019
Tenants Serve Eviction Notices to Bronx’s ‘Worst Evictors’, The Riverdale Press, May 19, 2019
Larry Gluck Among Worst Evictors In Manhattan: Tenants' Advocates, Patch NY, May 09, 2019
Interactive Map Tracks NYC Evictions & The Landlords Who File For Them, Gothamist, May 07, 2019
These are NYC’s Worst Landlords, Fast Company, May 07, 2019
Tenant Activists Release List of 'Worst' Evictors, Crain's New York Business, May 06, 2019
Thousands of Tenants Evicted, Even in Areas with Free Lawyers, The City NY, May 06, 2019
New Map Charts Bed-Stuy Evictions Block By Block, Patch, May 06, 2019
Are Your Bank Deposits Being Used to Finance Displacement?, Next City, Mar 21, 2019
San Francisco Is Counting Its Artists to Address the Problem of Gentrification, Hyperallergic, Feb 13, 2019
Finding Ways to Turn the University Model Inside-Out, Next City, Jan 31, 2019
What Do Hipsters And Banks Have In Common? Gentrification., Forbes, Jan 31, 2019
The Rodney Drive Battle Against Smug Landlord-Speculators of Scapa Silverman Properties, Knock LA, Dec 09, 2018
Confused About Prop 10? That’s How the Real Estate Lobby Wants It., Knock LA, Nov 05, 2018
On Tuesday, Oaklanders Will Decide Whether Landlords Can Evict Them for No Reason, In These Times, Nov 01, 2018
Prop 10 Has Already Won, BeyondChron, Oct 20, 2018
Searching for the True Price of Public Paintings in Oakland, Pacific Standard Magazine, Sept 14, 2018
Dublin's Homelessness Crisis Jars with Narrative of Irish Economic Boom, The Guardian, Sept 05, 2018
Housing Speculators Again in Political Crosshairs, SF Public Press, Aug 22, 2018
Controversial Displacement Study Leads to Strife Between Planning Department, Mission Anti-Gentrification Activists, Mission Local, Aug 10, 2018
Ellis Act Costs LA 5½ Rent Control Units a Day, BeyondChron, Aug 07, 2018
Speculation Likely Driving Ellis Evictions in Santa Monica, Study Finds, Santa Monica Lookout, Jul 26, 2018
The Horrors of the Recession to Come, SF Weekly, Jul 18, 2018
First Republic Bank Finances Displacement of Residents, Reveal News, Jun 11, 2018
Graduate Students Oppose UCLA’s Complicity in Evictions and Displacement, Knock LA, May 31, 2018
Why 37 Major Progressive Groups from Los Angeles Oppose State-Level Housing Bill SB 827, Knock LA, Feb 13, 2018
Precarious Housing in Oakland: Renting SRO Hotel Rooms to Techies Means More People Camping on the Street, San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, Dec 28, 2017
Mapping Displacement in San Francisco, Government Technology, Dec 14, 2017
Artists are Fleeing the Bay Area. Here's Where They're Going., SF Gate, Dec 4, 2017
Clarion Alley Mural Project Turns 25: A Historical Primer, SFist, Oct 20, 2017
Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Throughout California, KCET, Sept 20, 2017
Realtor Pulls Ad Selling Condos that Just Evicted Tenants, Curbed SF, Aug 28, 2017
San Francisco’s Clarion Alley, The Progressive, Jul 19, 2017
Art, Politics and Instagram Backdrops in San Francisco’s Clarion Alley, Peninsula Press, Jul 14, 2017
One Week of Homelessness Coverage, 11 Ideas About Solutions, San Francisco Public Press, Jul 6, 2017
One Vacant Block in SF’s Mission Reaches Back into Another Era, Mission Local, Jun 20, 2017
The Post Star, Jun 08, 2017
Spotlight News, Jun 07, 2017
EPG News, May 18, 2017
SF Gate, May 17, 2017
Indybay, May 13, 2017
News @ Wesleyan, May 12, 2017
Curbed San Francisco, May 10, 2017
truthout, May 10, 2017
City Watch Los Angeles, May 1 2017
Univision, Mar 10, 2017
wehoville.com, Mar 09, 2017
The SFist, Feb 24, 2017
The San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 2017
Curbed San Francisco, Jan 9, 2017
Rolling Stone, Dec 29, 2016
East Bay Times, Dec 2, 2016
Inquisitr, Dec 11, 2016
Pitchfork, Dec 6, 2016
Ozy, Dec 6, 2016
Modern Luxury, Dec 2, 2016
Visualizing Cities, 2016
Urbanites, November 9, 2016
The Guardian, October 31, 2016
Arcade, September 27, 2016
SF Chronicle, September 17, 2016
East Bay Express, September 2016
Hyperallegic, August 2016
Antipode, August 8, 2016
ArcGIS, August 2, 2016
SFist, July 2016
Visual News, July 5, 2016
SF Examiner, July 5, 2016
SFCurbed, July 5, 2016
KQED Arts, June 29, 2106
FastCo, June 22, 2016
Seattle Times, June 11, 2016
East Bay Express, April 13, 2016
SFist, April 12, 2016
Artnet News, April 29, 2016
TeleSUR, May 26, 2016
KQED Arts, May 22, 2016
Urban Narratives, May 17, 2016
Buzz Buzz Home, May 4, 2016
Voice of America, May 3, 2016
Creative Work Fund, May 11, 2016
Hoodline News, May 14, 2016
OUP Blog, March 18, 2016
Mission Local, February 23, 2016
UK Guardian, January 14, 2016
reitbert News, December 30, 2015
KALW, November 17, 2015
Al Jazeera, November 11, 2015
SFist, October 28, 2015
Golden Gate Express, October 14, 2015
KQED, October 10, 2015
SF Weekly, September 23, 2015
SF Examiner, September 21, 2015
Curbed, LA, September 18, 2015
SF Examiner, September 10, 2015
San Francisco 2.0, film by Alexandra Pelosi, September 2015
Santa Monica Lookout, August 27, 2015
East Bay Express, August 15, 2015
TruthOut, August 11, 2015
KQED, December 29, 2014
48 HIlls, December 29, 2014
Dazed, December 23, 2014
SF Examiner, December 18, 2014
Bold Italic, December 17, 2014
Common Dreams, December 15, 2014
48 Hills, December 8, 2014
San Jose Mercury News, December 5, 2014
FireWorks, December 4, 2014
Mission Local, December 4, 2014
Mission Local, November 28, 2014
SF Gate, November 22, 2014
Tech Crunch, November 17, 2014
Truth-Out, November 14, 2014
SF Hog, November 14, 2014
Newsweek, October 29, 2014
In These Times, October 29, 2014
Shaping SF, October 29, 2014
The Examiner, October 29, 2014
Think Progress, October 20, 2014
Fox News, October 14, 2014
Best of The Bay, SF Guardian, October 13, 2014
AJ+, October, 9, 2014
The Wired, October 9, 2014
Observers, October 8, 2014
48 Hills, October 7, 2014
SFist, October 7, 2014
El Tecolote, October 2, 2014
CounterPunch, October 6, 2014
48 Hills, September 29, 2014
Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2014
Mission Local, September 17, 2014
The Medium, September 12, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, September 11, 2014
48 Hills, September 11, 2014
El Mensajero, September 7, 2014
Capital and Main, September 5, 2014
SF Examiner, September 4, 2014
El Tecolote, September 2, 2014
Republicca, August 29, 2014
San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2014
48 Hills, August 25, 2014
CNET, August 20, 2014
Ebar, August 14, 2014
Against the Grain, August 12, 2014
Casto Courier, August 10, 2014
Business Week, August 7, 2014
Tech Crunch, August 1, 2014
NBC, August 1, 2014
Beyond Chron, July 20, 2014
Scribd, July 29, 2014
SF Gate, July 29, 2014
Valley Wag, July 29, 2014
Mission Local, July 29, 2014
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 25, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, July 22, 2014
Curbed SF, July 22, 2014
48 Hills, July 17, 2014
Tech Crunch, July 14, 2014
SF Examiner, July 11, 2014
Newsweek, July 11, 2014
Kron4, July 11, 2014
Think Progress, July 10, 2014
RT, July 10, 2014
Bold Italic, July 10, 2014
The New Yorker, July 7, 2014
Medium, June 30, 2014
TurnStyle, June 29, 2014
Dazed, June 28, 2014
ValleyWag, June 26, 2014
The Verge, June 25, 2014
KGO, June 25, 2014
KGO, June 19, 2014
The SFBG, June 16, 2014
TruthOut, June 13, 2014
48 Hills Online, June 13, 2014
Format, June 12, 2014
Mission Local, June 10, 2014
The Street Spirit, June 6, 2014
MarketPlace, June 2, 2014
Die Welt, June 2, 2014
Pando Daily, May 30, 2014
48 Hills Online, May 29, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, May 28, 2014
SF Examiner, May 28, 2014
48 Hills Online, May 28, 2014
Re/Code, May 27, 2014
Dazed, May 27, 2014
Business Insider, May 25, 2014
CBS, May 20, 2014
SF Examiner, May 19
Reuters, May 16, 2014
NBC, May 16, 2014
SFist, May 16, 2014
Business Insider, May 15, 2014
Hispanic Business, May 14, 2014
Bay Area Reporter, May 1, 2014
CBS, May 1, 2014
KALW, April 29, 2014
Modern Luxury, April 29, 2014
TruthOut, April 27, 2014
Re/code, April 23, 2014
Non-Profit Quarterly, April 23, 2014
Beyond Chron, April 23, 2014
AJAM Stream, April, 2014
IndyBay, April 22, 2014
Beyond Chron, April 21, 2014
Mercury News, April 21, 2014
NPR, April 16, 2014
Newsweek, April 15, 2014
Mission Local, April 15, 2014
The Verge, April 15, 2014
Tech Crunch, April 14, 2014
The Examiner, April 14, 2014
48 Hills Online, April 12, 2014
Reuters, April 11, 2014
Business Insider, April 10, 2014
The Bold Italic, April 10, 2014
Model View Culture, April 7, 2014
Janel Sterbentz, April 3, 2014
The Examiner, April 3, 2014
Fox News, April 2, 2014
Mission Local, April 2, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, April 2, 2014
Mission Local, April 2, 2014
48 HIlls Online, April 2, 2014
KQED, March 31, 2014
The Examiner, March 30, 2014
The Chronicle, March 25, 2014
PBS, March 18, 2014
Uptown Almanac, March 18, 2014
Beyond Chron, March 18, 2014
New Yorker, March 14, 2014
Newsweek, March 6, 2014
The Telegraph, March 6, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, March 4, 2014
Pando Daily, March 3, 2014
Huffington Post, March 3, 2014
ChoirCity, March 2, 2014
The Examiner, February 28, 2014
Time Magazine, February 27, 2014
48 Hills Online, February 27, 2014
Mission Local, February 26, 2014
Bloomberg News, February 25, 2014
Model View Culture, February 24, 2014
48 Hills Online, February 18, 2014
Weser Kurier, February 18, 2014
Die Presse, February 18, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, February 18, 2014
SF Weekly, February 18, 2104
CounterPunch, February 13, 2014
The Verge, February 12, 2014
Le Mouv, February 12, 2014
San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 11, 2014
Anarchist Book Fair, February 2014
News Times, February 9, 2014
Le JDD, February 8, 2014
Demotix, February 10, 2014
Mission Local, February 7, 2014
SFBG, February 5, 2014
Le Monde, February 1, 2014
Times Magazine, January 2014
Indybay, January 27, 2014
The Observer, January 25, 2014
Digital Cartography, January 22, 2014
San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 21, 2014
Red Poppy Art House, January 18, 2014
El Tecolote, January 16, 2014
SF Bay Guardian, January 14, 2014
Mission Local, January 10, 2014
Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2014
The Examiner, January 7, 2014
EarthFirst Journal, January 3, 2014
CNN, December 28, 2013
SF Bay Guardian, December 23, 2013
TruthOut, December 23, 2013
Capital and Main, December 23, 2013
La Laturra, December 20, 2013
Derwesten, December 22, 2013
CBS, December 20, 2013
USA Today, December 20, 2013
SF Chronicle, December 14, 2013
Bloomberg, December 13, 2013
Huffington Post Live, December 11, 2013
Reuters, December 10, 2013
The Examiner, December 9, 2013
SF Bay Guardian, December 9, 2013
Mission Local, December 7, 2013
Uptown Almanac, November 2013
The Bold Italic, November 2013
France 24, November 12, 2013
Street Sheet, November 11, 2013
Geohackers, November 3, 2013
NBC, October 20, 2013
The Atlantic, October 16, 2013
The Examiner, October 16, 2013
Google Maps Mania, October 16, 2013
The SF Bay Guardian, October 15 2013
Pinterest, October 2013
The Bold Italic, October 2013
Curbed San Francisco, October 2013