There’s a lot of sadness for Alex in living homeless amid the condos that he helped build when he was working in construction, back before he started having problems with “shifting realities.” He keeps his hospital bracelet on now as identification for when police approach him with their questions and orders to move along, having lost his other ID in a bylaw seizure. “People need to know that we’re good people out here. We’re not dangerous gangsters. Sure, maybe our parents were bikers, but that doesn’t define us. The way we get treated is bullying. It’s an ‘ism.’ It’s defamation of character.”