Mount Airy News – Program targets homeless

DOBSON — What started as a grant to prevent homelessness in Surry and Yadkin counties has morphed into a new program administered by the Surry County Department of Social Services.

DSS workers began last week interviewing applicants to the Surry – Yadkin Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP). But this new program isn’t just for anybody.

The purpose of the federal program is to reach people who are homeless or soon will be without intervention Story continues here ➤