Nearly 100 homeless people evicted from their cardboard shantytown near Shinjuku Station in February may have to vacate their current shelters this fall.
Agreements reached with reluctant local residents that have allowed them to stay at two temporary facilities in Shinjuku will expire in September and October, but so far only a handful of the occupants have landed jobs and are able to support themselves, welfare officials said.
Residents of the two lodging facilities -- one in the Kita-Shinjuku district and the other in front of the gate to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden -- were among hundreds of homeless who used to live in cardboard makeshift dwellings in an underground concourse at JR Shinjuku Station.
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