The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is a community arts-based organization that produces maps, digital tools, multimedia work, and data analysis in order to empower and educate. Since launching in 2013, AEMP has developed a toolkit of approaches to produce art for justice from its critical perspective. The two essential elements around which AEMP’s programming can be summarized are community-mapping and storytelling to build community power.

Our work is necessarily interdisciplinary and participatory, and includes oral histories, maps, reports, murals, zines, books, videos, oral histories, interactive web portals, and more. By working in collaboration with a number of local housing organizations, we root our research in lived experiences, grassroots struggles, and justice-based alliances. Rather than produce maps for or about tenants, we produce work by and in community with tenants impacted by and organizing against eviction, gentrification, and racial dispossession.