No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial is a powerful and intimate documentary that sheds light on a deeply overlooked aspect of the homelessness crisis: people’s grief following the death of someone they care about. Through the voices and stories of individuals living with unstable housing, the film explores what it means to grieve without a house, and how loss echoes through a community already struggling to survive.
Produced and directed by Dr. Joshua Black (BC Centre for Palliative Care) and Stephanie Laing (Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre), the film is both a tribute and a call to action. A tribute to those who died without shelter and to those who continue to grieve without the support, safety, or stability they deserve. It calls on communities, institutions, and society at large to confront how we ignore the grief of unhoused individuals and how simple acts of compassion and remembrance can be transformative.
Learn more about the project here. See Dr. Black’s Seed Funding-awarded work on improving the bereavement experience among people who are experiencing homelessness in British Columbia here.