In light of this information, I strongly suspect you’re right. He’s using a rent controlled apartment as a get away, and felt entitled to it because it was his boyhood home. If he’s not actually using as a primary residence, then that’s a completely different kettle of fish.
Sucks to not have your childhood home, but it was never really yours was it? File this eviction notice next to your Occulus VR kickstarter t-shirt as lessons in capitalism.
Of course, my wife recently visited our tenant who is living in the condo we once lived in, and commented on how she hardly recognizes it, and felt like a stranger in the same place we lived for years.
