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i ax naven - i ne r aie neraia <br />had been mostly silent since I turned on my <br />recorder, chimed in here. "We're both on <br />social security. Our property taxes for our 750 <br />square foot apartment are over $6,000." <br />"Tax Yale," Hamilton said, lifting her eyebrows. <br />Yale is a big university in a small city: its <br />campus stretches through 1,093 acres (orjust <br />under 50 million square feet) of land in and <br />around the city of New Haven. Granted, some <br />of that acreage sits outside the city's <br />boundaries in neighboring West Haven, but <br />the vast majority— around 950 acres —lies <br />within New Haven's city limits. In a town of just <br />20 square miles, 17 percent of which is un- <br />taxable parks and open public spaces, the <br />University's footprint is substantial: 950 acres <br />amounts to over eight percent of the land in <br />the Elm City, <br />Although Yale can be defined in a variety of <br />ways —it is at once a modern research <br />university; a small liberal arts college; a <br />hospital; and the city's largest <br />employer —under Connecticut State Law, it is <br />defined as a nonprofit corporation. That <br />means it is exempt from taxes on its <br />educational properties, the value of which is <br />around $3.5 billion, according to David <br />Cameron, DUS of the political science <br />department and chair of the city's Financial <br />rage .s or 15 <br />http: / /yaleherald.com/homepage -lead- image /cover - stories /tax - haven/ 10/23/2014 <br />