A non-profit organization in Iowa, Joppa, hopes "tiny homes" will help the homeless get back on their feet.

On the organization's website, it states 1,000 people are homeless each day in central Iowa.

The plans caught the attention of Drake University, which is now joining in to help.

It's meant to help people survive, get housing and rebuild their lives.

"You can live in a home instead of under a bridge or in a tent," Co-founder of Joppa, Joe Stevens said. "It's somewhere you can go for six to 24 months to gain a source of income, overcome your other barriers to housing and then you move into permanent housing."

The group's currently looking at four different pieces of land in the Des Moines area.

They hope to break ground next year and start moving people in by the winter of 2018.