Cardboard City (London)

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Cardboard City was an area of cardboard boxes lived in by homeless people in London near Waterloo station from 1983 until 1998.

In the mid-1980s the site, in the pedestrian underpasses under the Bullring roundabout, was home to up to 200 people sleeping rough in cardboard boxes. It was famously regarded as a symbol of society's failure to deal with homelessness.

By early 1998, fewer than 30 remained and were evicted by the Borough of Lambeth in February 1998, to leave before the end of March 1998. All were offered free housing by the borough, though some were unsure the residents would be able to cope with housed life.

The area is now the site of an IMax cinema.