Anti-Eviction

The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco Volume 61
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42336-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco.

In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and great inequality. The city became known for runaway gentrification, a major housing crisis, and an "eviction epidemic" of long-term tenants. Yet these changes also drove an inspiring housing justice movement that exposed gentrification as far from inevitable.

In Anti-Eviction, anthropologist and scholar-activist Manissa Maharawal tells the story of how residents built a powerful anti-eviction movement and how they fought—and sometimes won—a right to their homes and their city. Focusing on the stories of tenants facing eviction, Maharawal describes the different strategies for resistance that emerged as well as lessons for the broader national housing crisis, beyond California. This illuminating book offers not only actionable models for activism and resisting gentrification, but also a powerful study of how ordinary people came together to organize for housing justice and change their city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maharawal, Manissa

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Anti-Eviction
1. Love the Bay, Block the Bus
2. Permitting Gentrification
3. Narratives of Displacement and Resistance
4. Benito Santiago vs. the Ellis Act
5. How to Fight an Eviction
Conclusion: "We Are Still Here"

Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manissa Maharawal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC, and a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.