After a period of strained relations regarding off-campus student housing, Quinnipiac University said it has donated $1.23 million to its home city of Hamden.
The payment is in addition to $3 million Hamden gets from the state’s payment in lieu of taxes program and the Mashantucket Pequot/Mohegan Fund — an annual grant distribution from the state based on the value of state-owned property, colleges, hospitals, population and other factors.
Tensions have grown in Hamden over the number of students living in off-campus housing, and the disturbances that can create, according to the New Haven Register, which reported that Hamden recently began fining the school for not having enough dorm rooms.
QU President John L. Lahey said in a statement that the payment is “an affirmation of the university’s ongoing support and appreciation of all that Hamden does for Quinnipiac.”
The school noted that it also pays taxes on its properties that aren’t used exclusively for educational purposes. The taxes totaled more than $322,000 last fiscal year.
