Displacement Resistance

When to use this kit

Evictions, rising rents, rezoning, and violence can push people from their homes. This bundle helps communities stay put, document displacement, maintain connections when people are scattered, and respond through organising and legal action.

Included tools

• Community Situation Assessment

  Four columns. What's working. What's not. How to improve. What you'll do in two weeks.

• Community Needs Empathy Map

  Map what your community hears, sees, thinks, feels, and says. Then map their pains.

• Tenant Organising

  Alone, you're easy to evict. Together, you're a problem they have to negotiate with.

• Stay Put Networks

  Displacement happens one family at a time. Coordinate resistance so no one faces it alone.

• Parallel Census

  Official statistics erase you. Count yourselves. Know your own numbers.

• Diaspora Mapping

  Your people are scattered but not lost. Map where they are to coordinate across distance.

• Strategic Litigation

  Courts can be battlegrounds. Strategic cases create precedents that protect everyone who comes after.

Why these tools work together

The Situation Assessment tracks changing conditions, and the Empathy Map helps residents understand one another's experiences. Tenant organising and stay-put networks support people facing eviction, while a parallel census and diaspora mapping preserve community records and connections. Strategic litigation offers another route to challenge displacement.