Given the article it sounds like he's satisfied all of the conditions, everyone wants him out (hostile), he's filed the paperwork (open), he's had it written about in the paper (notorious), and he's established residence by camping in the living room.
Even if he doesn't get the house he's still living rent free.
In South Carolina, I met a cabbie who was renovating a big Federal style house in the north part of town. No furnace, and certainly no AC. He was also camped out in the living room, and doing all of the work himself. Got a $20,000 community reinvigoration loan from the government to help him out.
Even if he doesn't get the house he's still living rent free.