this would be opening the floodgates to affordable, rent- controlled housing and replacing it with torras housing. it is very profitable to do that. that is not what we want for our neighborhood. >> thank you. speakers in support of the requester? people who support you would come up to speak now. whoever supports the d r requester. >> i live across the street from the property, and i want to make a couple comments. first, there was a website that showed they were advertising rooms for rent on a nightly basis last month. he claims the advertisement was not his doing, that he saw the advertisement -- he stopped the advertisement, that he has not paid for an advertisement since 1997. -- since 2007. we are to believe no one called him from five advertisement. i see people coming and going from his apartment all the time because my windows look out on his apartment, and i can tell the people who are staying there, and over the last few years, i have been able to see people living there for a week or two, and they leave, then somebody else moves in, and they are there for a short time, and the