It may be that a previous land-owner gave verbal permission for the guy to live there decades ago, and that same land-owner sold the property without sharing that information with the buyer....
Of course the previous land-owner may be deceased by now...
Lawyers should have fun with this one.
It sounds pretty cut and dried to me. He is squatting, it’s not his land, the dwelling is against zoning laws. He doesn’t have much of a case.
I feel sorry for the guy but you do not just take up on somebody else’s property and think it’s going to be smooth sailing no matter how long you have been there. What if all these incoming illegals started doing this?
I feel bad for him. Maybe some organization will chip in or something for some other arrangements for him but he’s always going to miss what was his home for so long.
What did the article say?