‘Tired of settling’: Seven Oaks Apartments residents, Texas Organizing Project push back against poor living conditions, eviction notices
Tenants of the Seven Oaks apartment complex rally Thursday, June 23, 2022, to demand better living conditions from management. Tenants complain of pest infestations, broken air conditioning, mold, water leaks and crime. The tenants and the Texas Organizing Project tried to deliver a list of demands to management Thursday evening, but the office had closed early.Zhi’Ria Cook moved into the Seven Oaks Apartments complex near Leon Valley almost a year ago and has faced problems since Day One.
Cook, a housekeeper, was one of dozens of tenants and leaders from Texas Organizing Project that teamed up Thursday afternoon to deliver a list of demands to the complex’s leasing office, which included a request that all maintenance issues be fixed within 72 hours. Some residents in attendance said they have received notices to vacate with little time to leave, so the list of demands also states that no tenant should be forced to move out before Dec. 23.
But the crowd gathered in front of the building shouting, some of their demands and concerns, chanting “no justice, no peace,” while some in the group waved at the video camera that faces the front door. The group held up photographs of problems in some of the apartments. Richardson, a server at a Chinese restaurant, has lived in the complex for about nine months. He hasn’t had hot water in months despite putting in a work order and talking to an employee at the leasing office. After feeling like his concerns were dismissed Richardson told the office that he would not pay them until his water was fixed. Since then, he has received two notices to vacate that had three-day deadlines to move out.
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