Privacy boundaries, voluntary use and data minimisation are fixed — today, not a pilot item.
- Hard privacy boundaries
- Voluntary participation
Honest answers
Honest answers to the questions you will ask
Housing stress and the Housing Security Check touch privacy, HR and trust — so of course you have critical questions. Below we answer them directly: what is firmly in place today, what we test together in the pilot, and how it grows with your organisation.
Transparent
Hold us to every answer
Housing stress and the Housing Security Check touch privacy, HR and trust — so of course you have critical questions. Below we answer them directly: what is firmly in place today, what we test together in the pilot, and how it grows with your organisation.
Response, recognition and reporting value are tested on your own population in the pilot.
- Value on your own population
Security, SLA and sector validation expand as your deployment grows.
We do not pretend housing stress is already fully measurable. What we do: make it visible, discussable and manageable — with hard privacy boundaries, and without HR taking over individual problems.
The questions you ask
Straight answers, no sales spin: we don't make it bigger than it is, or smaller than it needs to be.
Is the Housing Security Check scientifically validated?
We don't present the Housing Security Check as a clinically validated psychological instrument — it isn't one. It is a practice-based signal index built on years of rental-law case experience. In the pilot you see for yourself whether the outcomes are recognisable, useful and predictive enough for your policy.
Secured today: Methodology note with explicit limits and clear pilot KPIs.Grows with you: Validation that grows with use: score distribution, check-in ratio and feedback from your own pilot, plus broader reference material as more organisations join.
Is this not just EAP, occupational health, social work or relocation?
Huursterk doesn't replace those services — it sits earlier in the chain, at the concrete housing cause that can create stress. The goal is source interpretation, calm and direction, not therapy or HR case management.
Secured today: Clear route map and check-in scope.Grows with you: Sector-specific integration with your existing occupational-health and EAP arrangements.
What does the employer see?
No individual participation, answers, scores, documents or conversations. Reporting is group-level only, and only above agreed privacy thresholds. With small groups, substantive reporting is suppressed.
Secured today: Privacy & governance one-pager, role separation and reporting thresholds.Grows with you: Full DPIA pack, data-flow diagram, retention matrix and subprocessor list — ready when you scale.
What if the employer wants to know who participated?
Then Huursterk isn't the right provision. Independence of the employee route is a hard condition — it protects both employee and employer from unwanted HR case handling.
Secured today: Pilot conditions and role-based access.Grows with you: Further technical safeguards against indirect inference, expanding with your dashboards.
What happens below 20 participants?
Low participation doesn't prove housing stress is absent — it does show that substantive research in this form isn't useful enough. For small teams the value shifts to individual clarity and reach diagnosis.
Secured today: Small Team Pilot, with no substantive reporting below the threshold.Grows with you: Separate small-team logic that adds value without showing exact low counts.
Will employees start legal proceedings against landlords?
The aim is calm and clarity. Huursterk clarifies whether a threat, notice or rent increase actually holds up. Sometimes doing nothing is wise, sometimes a short response is enough, sometimes referral is needed. Huursterk does not conduct proceedings.
Secured today: Check-in scope and clear referral arrangements.Grows with you: Referral network for legal aid and specialised support, when it's needed.
Discuss which questions matter most in your organisation
A scale-up asks different questions than a municipality, university, hospital or fintech. In a short pilot exploration we determine together which privacy, governance, SLA and employee-experience requirements must be secured for you first.