Woonzekerheidscheck

The Housing Security Check creates early clarity

A short, voluntary check that helps employees understand their housing situation and gives employers only privacy-safe group insights.

Categories of housing security

The Housing Security Check examines actual housing situation, perceived security and confidence. The employer only sees group-level insights.

01

Contract & security

For employee Surfaces your actual contract situation, your knowledge of what a landlord may and may not do around termination or renewal, and how strongly you feel you stand in that. Tenants often panic at letters that are legally far less binding than they look.
For employer Flags whether contractual uncertainty — combined with knowledge gaps or low confidence in one's rights — leads to rushed moves or exits.
02

Affordability

For employee Surfaces your actual housing costs, your knowledge of how rent and rent increases work (WWS, points calculation, objection), and whether you feel free to use those rules. Often it's not the rent that's the problem, but not knowing what grip you have on it.
For employer Flags whether financial pressure from housing — combined with knowledge gaps or low agency — is a hidden source of worry.
03

Quality & maintenance

For employee Surfaces the actual condition of your home, whether you know what a landlord is obliged to repair, and whether you dare to raise defects without worrying about damaging the relationship.
For employer Flags whether housing quality is a hidden stressor — often because tenants don't know they can act, or don't feel able to.
04

Relationship with the landlord

For employee Surfaces how communication with your landlord actually goes, whether you know what he can and cannot do, and whether you feel free to raise things or take your time before responding.
For employer Flags whether perceived pressure or intimidation is a hidden cause of rumination and silent attrition.
05

Service costs & ancillary charges

For employee Surfaces whether you receive an annual reconciliation and what's in it, whether you know the rules around service costs, and whether you feel able to do something about unclear items. No reconciliation or no transparency is a strong indicator of underlying housing stress.
For employer Flags whether a common, often unspoken source of worry is at play in your organisation.
06

Knowledge of and confidence in one's rights

For employee Surfaces whether you know the basic routes and institutions — Rent Tribunal, district court, Legal Aid Counter — and whether you can calmly rely on that knowledge when something isn't right.
For employer Flags whether employees are acting from insight or from fear — the core category behind 'confidence in one's rights'.
07

Mental impact

For employee Surfaces how often and how strongly your housing situation intrudes on work, sleep or daily worry.
For employer Flags the current psychological load of housing at group level.

What the employer gets in practice

  • Anonymised reporting: housing security score, risk levels and trends per cohort or team
  • Prevention KPIs: early signals, follow-up rates, risk categories and chosen follow-up route
  • Implementation guidance: onboarding integration, referral thresholds and a quarterly review rhythm
  • The share of employees who want additional interpretation or follow-up

What employees get in practice

  • Per category: see whether a risk factor is currently at play and how strongly — in plain language
  • Explanation and knowledge: per answer, what the signal means, what the law or rules say about it, and what you can do
  • Clarity instead of worry: understand your situation, with a confidential check-in or preventive guidance as a follow-up where it helps
  • Preventive guidance only where the signal points to a need for it
Check-in

Clear interpretation before housing stress grows

A check-in is a confidential conversation in which an employee can have their rental situation interpreted. It is not therapy, legal representation or an HR case. The employee decides whether to request one.

View check-in scope

Privacy boundary for check-ins

  • The expert does not see a name or email address by default.
  • The employee explicitly consents to sharing the necessary Housing Security Check summary.
  • The employer receives no participation, appointment or conversation information.

What the employer does — and doesn't — see

The employer sees
  • Anonymised group-level trends and KPIs, from 20 participants onward
  • Housing stress levels at department or cohort level
  • Aggregated risk categories (never per-person scores)
The employer never sees
  • Individual Housing Security Check scores or answers
  • Which employee booked a confidential check-in or preventive guidance
  • Case details: contract, landlord, amount, situation

Housing stays private. Housing stress becomes visible at organisational level.