Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Rhode Island

Terminating an apartment lease because of excessive break-ins

I am asking this question for my boyfriend. He was a tenant in a fairly large apartment complex in Rhode Island. Someone broke into his apartment twice! He filed a police report both times. The first time their was no sign of forced entry. The second time the door was damaged as they attempted to break-in through it but they succeeded with breaking through the sliding glass door. Approximatly $4000 worth of items were taken. The apartment complex had agreed to move him to another unit in the same complex or to move him to another complex that they owned. The other complex they owned was about an hour and a half from his job so that was not reasonable. He also did not want to move to an apartment in the same complex because he was afraid the intuders would see his move and just enter the new apartment. One break-in was on a sunday afternoon when he had left the apartment for only a few hours, obviously he was being watched very closely. My question is, should he be able to terminate his lease and receive his deposit back?

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