Anti-Eviction

Manissa Maharawal's Anti-Eviction documents the rise of a grassroots movement in San Francisco that contested tech-led displacement in the 2010s.

Drawing on ethnography and activist practice, Maharawal traces how organizers—many rooted in Occupy—built community strategies like Google bus blockades and fought for policies such as rent stabilization and community land trusts.

The book situates tech gentrification as a form of modern colonization and critiques market-only solutions that produce luxury housing rather than deeply affordable units.

Maharawal combines personal stories of teachers, nurses, bartenders, and public school staff with policy analysis to show how collective action changed local conversations and secured some tenant protections.

Ultimately, the book argues for regulation, social housing, and organized resistance as necessary counterweights to financialized housing markets.