Only if it helps further THE PLAN....
Heh. Now I'm picturing a young Gendo smiling an infamous smile as, from hiding, he watches his neighbor come onto the porch and look around in confusion.
Exactly as planned.
As for me:
My campus is currently undergoing a wave of construction. Less than a hundred feet from one of my classroom windows, they're putting up a huge new cafeteria and student services center. On the very first day back, in my very first class (Materials Design for Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, for those of you dying to know), with Eva still fresh in my mind from break.... A pile driver started up. And each rise and fall of the hammer struck out the exact same sharp, ringing sound from Tokyo III.
And I am able to confirm that living in Rei's apartment block would get really annoying really *really* quickly. The only consolation is that a building was going up, instead of going down....