Data Analytics Undergraduate/Graduate Intern – Summer 2026

New York City Housing Development Corporation•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC) is a public benefit corporation and the nation’s largest municipal Housing Finance Agency. HDC seeks to increase the supply of multi-family housing, stimulate economic growth, and revitalize neighborhoods by financing the creation and preservation of affordable housing for low-, moderate-, and middle-income New Yorkers. HDC’s programs support the construction and preservation of multi-family affordable housing in New York City. Team & Position Summary The Data Analytics Intern will build data tools that describe the state of multifamily housing in New York City. This internship will provide exposure to the use of data tools in encouraging investment in affordable multifamily housing. More specifically, the intern’s work will include extracting and transforming data from internal and external sources; building data analysis pipelines; summarizing, visualizing, and presenting results; and documenting and presenting their work. Their work may also include the development of statistical models and reporting dashboards. This internship will be housed in HDC’s Policy and Analytics (P&A) Division. As part of the President’s Office, P&A provides advisory and analysis services to help HDC’s senior leaders address critical issues and advance the Corporate mission. The division’s work is interdisciplinary, and our projects often consider intersecting issues of affordable housing, finance, economic and social policy, social equity, governance, management, and technology. Recent projects on which the team has worked on include: Monitoring rental arrears and financial trends in multifamily housing; analyzing citywide eviction patterns; contributing to the Corporation’s data governance program; identifying applicable local emission compliance requirements for HDC buildings; and integrating external data sources into the team’s database.

Requirements

Enrollment in a bachelor’s degree or graduate program; this internship is open to all program types, but see “preferred qualifications” below for coursework areas most relevant to this opportunity
Strong quantitative aptitude
Proficiency with R (Tidyverse), Python (Pandas), or other data analysis software (e.g. Stata)
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational and time management skills; excellent attention to detail
Ability to apply knowledge and creative thinking
Ability to work with a high degree of independence

Nice To Haves

Intermediate to advanced coursework in statistics, data analytics, or data science
Comfort with reading and understanding scholarly research articles
Familiarity with querying databases using SQL
Familiarity with dashboard or business intelligence systems
Interest in housing policy and real estate

Responsibilities

Extract data housed at HDC and in external data systems
Execute data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, and visualization in R
Read, understand, and reproduce quantitative methodologies from written articles
Document the contents and structures of data sets; describe analysis methodologies used
Communicate findings through written documents and presentations
General miscellaneous duties as assigned

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