Merced Housing Texas

Merced Housing Texas’ mission is to create and strengthen healthy communities by providing quality, affordable housing with supportive services for individuals, families, and older adults living in low-income households.

Grant Focus:

The Preserving the Continuity of Childhood (PCOC) program will address this critical gap by providing free home repairs to kinship families, removing housing-related barriers to placement and helping children remain safely with family. This project directly advances Impact SA’s Family focus area by strengthening family relationships, preserving family unity, and increasing the ability of children and caregivers to stay connected during one of the most vulnerable periods in a child’s life.

Merced Housing Texas (Merced) will provide home repair services to kinship families of foster care youth through referrals from nonprofit agency referrals. The program will serve Bexar County foster youth, from birth to age 17, and their kinship families. Eligible households must earn at or below 80% of area median income (AMI), ranging from $64,400 for a two-person household to $80,500 for a four-person household. Because this is a new program, gender and ethnicity data are not yet available; however, these and other demographic data will be collected at launch and reported at the end of the grant period.

Grant Year: 2026

Focus Area: Family

High Impact Grant

Grant Impact:

Merced will help kinship families of foster care youth effectively remove the home repair barriers that prohibit them from qualifying to become foster care parents. Merced will make repairs to 15-24 homes of foster care kinship families living in low-income households of 80% AMI or below.

100% of kinship families served will report placement of foster care next of kin in their homes.
100% of foster care youth and their kinship families will report decreased stress related to uncertainty related to cost prohibitive home repair barriers.
100% of foster care youth and their kinship families will report increased physical wellness and feeling of safety and security due to improved environmental conditions in the home.

This program will be guided by Merced’s values of compassion, collaboration, service and integrity and will:

Provide stable and safe housing for an underserved population living in low-income households.
Strengthen communities through strengthening families.
Contribute to better outcomes in physical health, academics, mental/emotional wellness, connectedness/enrichmentand financial security through housing stability.