The only thing sadder than not having a place to live is almost having one, and then finding out at the last minute that they didn’t pick you. So it went for Taner a few days ago, when he learned that the people who run his favoured supportive housing site, and where he thought he would soon be housed at last, had vetoed him over an apparent history of violence. Taner has no idea what that was referring to, but he knows what it means: Still stuck on Pandora. He’s been out there three years now. It isn’t easy for anyone to live on Pandora given the constant bylaw confiscations and increasing police presence, but Taner had the additional gut-wrenching experience six months ago of waking up to find his girlfriend Hayley had died next to him. He sits most days at the memorial he started for her at the corner of Quadra and Pandora, which has grown to include at least 22 other people from the street community who have died since then. “I just really thought I was at the point where the bad things were ending and everything was finally going to turn around,” says Taner. “I’m just feeling so defeated. I had that hope. Now it’s gone.”