Homeless The homeless were people so poor that they didn ' t have homes . Homeless people were sometimes called tramps . During the Great Depression , many homeless people in America lived in shanty towns called Hooverville s . In 1930 , Hooverville residents in New York City were abducted by the Cult of Skaro and converted into pig slave s . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " / " Evolution of the Daleks " ) During the Blitz , many children were left orphaned and homeless in London . Nancy looked after them and helped them get food . ( TV : " The Empty Child " / " The Doctor Dances " ) In 1966 , a tramp was killed by labourers under WOTAN ' s control after he discovered them building War Machine s . ( TV : " The War Machines " ) Dodo Chaplet became homeless shortly after leaving the First Doctor , but was rescued by James Stevens . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) In 1968 , the Sentience possessed a homeless man named Billy Coote . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) In 1969 , Melody Pond became homeless after she escaped from the Silent s . Six months later , in New York City , a tramp witnessed her regenerate . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) In the 1970s , a tramp named Pigbin Josh was captured and killed by Axos . ( TV : " The Claws of Axos " ) Some years later , a tramp was run over by a hovercraft driven by the Third Doctor , who was chasing Lupton . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) In 1992 , a tramp nicknamed Leapy helped the Seventh Doctor defeat a Gantac invasion . ( COMIC : " Invaders from Gantac ! " ) Later , another tramp became the Doctor ' s companion . ( PROSE : " The Tramp ' s Story " ) In 1997 , vampire s killed many homeless people in San Francisco for their blood . ( PROSE : " Vampire Science " ) On a Christmas Eve in the late 20th century , the Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot stopped a desperate homeless man named Charlie from robbing the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles . ( PROSE : " Goodwill Toward Men " ) In the early 21st century , with increasing pollution bringing declining health , the Butler Institute acquired homeless people as a source of replacement organs for the corporation ' s employees . ( PROSE : " " ) Circa 2006 , Torchwood One abducted several homeless people and experimented on them with alien DNA , eventually creating the Chimera . ( COMIC : " The Legacy of Torchwood One ! " ) In 2007 , a Bruydac killed several homeless people in Cardiff for their spinal fluid . ( PROSE : " Another Life " ) In 2009 , Eve abducted four homeless people for companionship . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) In late December of that year , killed two homeless men , Tommo and Ginger , for their life force . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) In 2011 , a homeless man witnessed a Metalkind ' s arrival on Earth . He later told Sarah Jane Smith and Rani Chandra what he had seen . ( TV : " Sky " ) Later that year , Clyde Langer met and befriended Ellie Faber and other homeless people when he was under Hetocumtek ' s curse . ( TV : " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) In 2012 , Henry van Statten , who often had his employees mind - wiped and abandoned on the streets of various cities , suffered this fate himself at the hands of Diana Goddard as punishment for all the deaths caused by his Dalek . ( TV : " Dalek " ) In 2050 , Darius Pike encountered two tramps in a junkyard . They locked him in a wardrobe for invading their territory . ( TV : " Fear Itself " ) On Pete ' s World , John Lumic had Cybus Industries round up homeless people and convert them into Cybermen . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) On an unnamed planet , a homeless man tried to eat a burger he found in a bin , only to find it was actually Avan Tarklu . ( COMIC : " The Shape Shifter " )