there's a building on the upper west side of manhattan a very rich neighborhood called the imperial court hotel it's been a single room occupancy building since the one nine hundred forty s. mean the owner rents out single star brooms for short periods of time like for a week or a month in two thousand and eleven a law was passed mandating stays that single occupancy buildings must be a minimum of thirty days to keep tourists or transients from bugging long term plans or plans president since the law passed the imperial court has been losing tens of thousands of dollars a month according to the building's owner so he's the man that he wants to be able to rent rooms again for a week long state since he's getting no traction with the city he's decided to try a unique tactic for getting his profits back he's now threatening to turn the building into a homeless shelter that's the word used by politicians on the story threatening not me because apparently offering homeless people shelter is now a threat in america he hasn't filed any paperwork with the department of homeless services but upper west