SAN ANTONIO – A local non-profit is being evicted from their office space. Not because they didn\u2019t pay their rent, they claim they are being evicted for their mission.<\/p>\n
Tia Gibson says Monster Mom\u2019s Inc. has rented space from Morris Realty for the past five years, and now they may have to find a new home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not comfortable with me being here giving out food because he feels like I should be teaching them to fish instead of giving out food,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n
Monster Moms feeds over 500 domestic violence survivors every two weeks. Many of them are homeless. She says their property manager recently approached them with a surprising message.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe expressed to us that it\u2019s not equipped with his aesthetic for the design he wants it to look like,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want deliveries. He doesn\u2019t want the food bank truck here. He doesn\u2019t want it here at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The property manager declined to interview but said he is prepared to take this to court if it goes that far. Gibson fears if she moves the people who need services won\u2019t be able to get them.<\/p>\n
Gibson says the property manager reached out to the food pantry that contracts Monster Moms asking them to end the partnership.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe actually told them I remember you from playing basketball with my son,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cI just wanted to see if you could cancel this. I don\u2019t want it here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gibson says the most recent development is an eviction notice she was given to vacate the property although she signed a 12-month-lease.<\/p>\n
Attorney Bradley Bellows says Texas law prevents interference of contracts, so there may be more the organization can do. But he says the eviction itself wouldn\u2019t be illegal.<\/p>\n
While the eviction may be illegal, the organization believes it\u2019s not right. Monster Moms Inc. must vacate the property by Friday Oct. 24.<\/p>\n
They say they currently do not have the funds to move because they were only given a 30-day notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A local non-profit is being evicted from their office space. Not because they didn\u2019t pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9189,4530,9186,696,9190,9187,7295,9188,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-10093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-domestic-violence","tag-eviction","tag-food-distribution","tag-homelessness","tag-legal-dispute","tag-monster-moms","tag-non-profit","tag-property-manager","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}