Around 30 families lacking housing in Jerusalem, who squatted in an abandoned building in the Kiryat Yuval neighborhood owned by the Hebrew University, have called on Housing Minister Ariel Atias and several Knesset members to convert the building into affordable public housing. The families, assisted by students and social activists, propose to transform the building and another empty one nearby into a new model of public housing, providing apartments for the housing insecure in mixed projects alongside other populations such as students. The buildings, formerly student dormitories, have been unoccupied for about six years. Meanwhile, the families expect to be evicted after the university filed a police complaint.