STANLEY HAMMER HONOREE
Susan Sheeran, Merced Housing
has been named San Antonio
Apartment Association’s 2018
Stanley Hammer Honoree,
SAAA’s highest honor given to an
individual who has made outstanding
contributions to the San Antonio area
apartment industry while acting in
an honest and ethical manner.
Susan Sheeran, Merced Housing has been named
San Antonio Apartment Association’s 2018 Stanley
Hammer Honoree, SAAA’s highest honor given to
an individual who has made outstanding contribu-
tions to the San Antonio area apartment industry
while acting in an honest and ethical manner.
what is just for those who cannot afford, or afford
to maintain quality housing. Along with her team,
Susan has helped Merced meet its mission with
the implementation of four main programs:
• The Multi-Family Program which houses over
1,700 families in San Antonio and other parts
of Texas
Susan has dedicated her career and her volun-
• The Resident Services Program in which over
teer life to enhancing the way others live. She has
2,600 affordable resident families thrive
been true to the core values of her organization
because of no-cost supportive services
– Respect, Justice and Mercy. Her career path in
focused on good health, education, and
San Antonio began at the Neighborhood Rein-
financial stability are offered by Merced.
vestment Corporation, where Susan helped fa-
• The Owner Occupied Repair Program which
cilitate the development of a community-based
has helped over 630 extremely low income
non-profit housing development corporation. She
senior and disabled homeowners who can
moved on to the San Antonio Housing Authority
no longer afford to maintain a safe home
where she was a member of the Housing Oppor-
because of health and safety repairs
tunities Division tasked with acquisition, finance,
• And the Single Family Program which helped
development and management of Low Income
provide completely rehabilitated and new
Housing Tax Credit properties. In 1995, when Mer-
infill homes to 22 families
ced Housing was founded by nine congregations
of Catholic women for the purpose of addressing In addition to all of Susan’s time in San Antonio,
housing justice for the economically poor, Susan she spent 11 years in Colorado committed in very
was asked to lead the charge. Twenty-four years similar ways to the housing industry, giving her a
later, Susan continues to be humble and strive for total of almost 40 years invested in the housing
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