City To Donate $50G to Hoboken Homeless Shelter

The city is planning on donating $50,000 The move will have to be approved by the city council first, but was first announced at the shelter's

" lost a lot of federal funding," Mayor Dawn Zimmer said in a phone interview on Friday. 

The city recently received $2 million in the settlement of a law suit with development firm Ursa Tarragon. Of that sum, Zimmer said, she would like to donate $50,000 to the shelter.

While the city council is often divided, Zimmer said she hopes this will be a unanimous decision. "This is one issue that we can all come together on," she said. 

Zimmer said she spoke to Jaclyn Cherubini, the executive director of the shelter and asked her what she needed. Cherubini told her that, without federal money, the shelter will have trouble paying its utilities.

Last year, 166 people were taken off the streets and given housing through the shelter, Zimmer said. 

"The shelter is providing affordable housing," Zimmer said.