Brendan has had “crazy” bipolar disorder since he was 17. A settlement from a major car accident he was in years back at least left him financially able to stay housed, albeit with an acquired brain injury on top of the bipolar, but he finds community among people living homeless. “I’m safe until I die in terms of money. But I like to be out here helping others,” says Brendan. He sees the violence that people have to endure at the hands of housed people who see them as fair game for harassment. “You can’t believe the things that happen to people out here. One guy got his sleeping bag set on fire. Another got thrown to the ground and kicked in the head because some guy saw him leaning on his truck. I get it in a way – from the other side, maybe it looks like someone’s not doing anything, just hanging around. But that’s only because you made a bunch of presumptions already that aren’t true.”