He could, I guess, although in that case I don’t know why he would have tweeted that he was being evicted and not, say, his partner, siblings, or children – seems like that would be an even more egregious case of “administrative harassment,” if a relative were evicted just because of his or her relationship to Graeber.
I didn’t see any evidence of siblings or children and I imagine his partner, whom he mentions on Reddit, lives with him in the U.K., but who knows. I’m not interested enough in the issue to do any more research 
I believe the most likely explanation is that this was a simple and unobjectionable case of someone losing his right to a rent-controlled (or -stabilized) NYC apartment because he didn’t actually live there, but I’m perfectly willing to admit that there are alternate scenarios. If one comes to light, I’ll be (mildly) curious to hear about it.
And now, I think, I’ve written enough about an issue that doesn’t affect me personally and isn’t really of all that much interest to me! I apologize for dominating the latter half of the discussion with my lengthy arguments.
