In the wake of Tech Boom 2.0, San Francisco residents are experiencing rising rates of dispossession and displacement. The Ellis Act, originally intended to allow jaded long-time landlords to retire their rental properties, has become a tool in the hands of corporate real estate developers capitalizing on the law in order to flip units and evict vulnerable tenants to  turn a profit. This map tells one piece of a much larger and complex phenomena–San Francisco’s predatory rental market and plummeting affordability.

I created this map as part of a larger research project on the influence of tech on San Francisco's housing market. Despite the city's strong tenant rights and stabilization laws, the increasing presence and tech and other industries is creating market pressures which illustrate that these evictions are not isolated instances. Rather, they are the work of the result of serial evictors and limited liability companies who are taking advantage of a stressed rental market and vulnerable tenants.