Some find precarious refuge with friends or the kindness of strangers in another town.
Although he didn't invoke Tennessee Williams' "the kindness of strangers, " it is very much in practice online.
Sabin relies on relentless networking, do-gooder optimism and an unabashed penchant for imposing on the kindness of strangers.
"We will never become dependent on the kindness of strangers, " he wrote in his 2009 letter to shareholders.
By solving puzzles, collecting possessions, and relying on the kindness of strangers, players feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.
That made her a widow who couldn't count on the kindness of strangers.
"My husband says he's a Twitter widow, but Twitter and the kindness of strangers brought my mum home, " she said.
Four years on, her position has not changed - she is in unofficial accommodation and survives on the kindness of strangers.
About all you can do is rely on the kindness of strangers, via a grassroots campaign on sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Have you ever benefited from the kindness of strangers in foreign lands?
The history of travel is awash with tales of the kindness of strangers, taking in wandering travellers and giving them free food and shelter.
For a while at least, the kindness of strangers has allowed Uncle Sam to fund itself in a world bereft of other good choices.
As anti-Semitic forces grow throughout the world, Livni has not communicated one single policy for defending Israel abroad that doesn't involve the kindness of strangers.
He showed me that the kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope that the North Korean people need.
He spent two months hitchhiking alone across the Aegean island and says he could have eaten enough simply by picking food off trees and through the kindness of strangers.
At that point, they will have little choice but to become dependent on the kindness of strangers or the generosity of Catholic Charities to help them escape the grip of medically induced poverty.
The Anglo-American economies rely on the kindness of strangers.
Clement Dorance, a Venturi spokesman, told me the cargo area was fitted with a larger battery pack, yielding 300 miles of range, but still requiring the kindness of strangers to get the thing charged up.
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That these moves have made Israel dependent on the kindness of strangers was made clear this week when Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed Israel's ambassadors to launch a campaign to convince the international community that Israel and the Palestinians are making great strides in their negotiations toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers to write checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.
Unfortunately, the prospect of America's space program relying - like a fading superpower version of A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois - on the "kindness of strangers" is the inevitable result of programmatic decisions being taken by the Obama administration.
He offered Margaret and me the last few swallows from his pint of Evan Williams bourbon, and told me about the past year, which, for him, had been filled with adventure, serendipitous encounters, and the kindness of many strangers.
The random acts of kindness by well meaning strangers have a downside.
We characterize the modern cities sometimes as a place of alienation and anomie and the faceless lonely crowd and so on, but when an emergency like this happens and people are pushed against the extremes, you see extraordinary acts of solidarity and kindness between strangers.
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