Swept Off the Map: Visualizing East Bay's Encampment Sweeps

Geography alum Cole Haddock (BA, '25), in collaboration with Maria Toldi, have published a compelling set of maps in the independent East Bay newspaper Street Spirit using nearly 1,900 public data records from the City of Oakland. Their article, “Swept off the Map – Four Years of Encampment Management in Oakland,” looks at the impacts of Oakland's current Encampment Management Policy (EMP) and is the first chapter in an ongoing project as beneficiaries of UC Berkeley’s Judith Lee Stronach Prize. The goal of the project is to document the scope and scale of encampment sweeps in Oakland, Berkeley, and Richmond, and how constant displacement impacts the people who experience these operations.