To keep costs down for interns, HACU typically reserves blocks of apartments outside the city in the nearby suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. Field interns may live in a variety of accommodations, such as dormitories, apartments, on-site agency facilities, or a room in a private home. Corporations will work with corporate interns to make housing arrangements whenever applicable. No, HACU can help arrange housing for you, provide necessary deposits, up-front costs, such as security deposits, and will make rent payments. These costs are then equally distributed over all pay periods and deducted from the interns' bi-weekly paychecks.
Interns have the option of making their own housing arrangements.
If you choose this option, we will ask you to tell us as soon as you are accepted and to provide us with the address and phone number of where you will be staying. The program dates are not flexible. Interns are required to be in Washington, D.C. for orientation and work through the last day of the program. If you foresee any conflicts with our program dates, please notify our office immediately. Each orientation is different.