MELBOURNE, Fla. — Daily Bread, a nonprofit in Melbourne, is pushing forward with a multi-million dollar affordable housing project – with the hopes to reduce homelessness.

For 35 years, the organization has serviced the homeless with meals, showers, and health check-ups but does not provide housing due to city regulations.

The agency wants to get people off the streets of Brevard County and provide a place to live for those in need.

Daily Bread’s executive director, Jeff Njus, says they have been working with the city to develop the housing project.

“We need to be the ones to provide that housing, geared towards people coming out of homelessness with the resources they need to become successful.” said Njus.

The nonprofit says the city plans to kick in $3 million toward the $15 million facility called Providence Place.

The plans include a comprehensive affordable housing facility that will include drug, alcohol addiction and mental health services.

The organization says affordable housing is the only way Melbourne is going to solve its homeless problems.

“We are going to provide the real solution to the housing crisis to the homeless by providing affordable housing,” said Njus.

According to Daily Bread, there are over 1,000 homeless people in the area with over 300 sleeping outside on any given night.

There have been some delays in finding a place to build the facility, but a property has been located near South Apollo Boulevard that the nonprofit is considering.

Providence Place would require every resident to have a lease and pay what they can.

Final planning will be done in January, and they hope to break ground sometime next year.