Nevada V. Merriman serves as MidPen Housing’s Vice President, Policy and Advocacy. Since 2007, she’s held many positions in the Real Estate Development team, including project manager. Most recently, she was the Director of Housing Development for the Peninsula and Silicon Valley. She has contributed to developing over 3,000 homes in Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties. She is a passionate advocate for including homes for extremely low-income and unhoused community members in the vision for our region’s future. She looks for ways to partner with local governments and build coalition with nearly every affordable housing advocacy organization in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas.
In 2022, Ms. Merriman was appointed to the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority’s Advisory Committee. She is also a board member of SV@HOME, and she co-chairs the County of San Mateo’s Home for All collaborative. She was a member of the All Home technical committee while it developed a Regional Action Plan to reduce unsheltered homelessness. In her free time, she serves as a Housing Commissioner for the City of Menlo Park.