Nobody solves the housing shortage alone. Hospi Housing works with more than a hundred municipalities, housing corporations and educational institutions to create housing without building anything new.
Research by the Ministry of the Interior (2024) shows 8% of Dutch people are considering renting out a room. As more corporations and mortgage lenders permit it, that number is rising fast.
For a municipality that means extra housing without building. Hospi Housing looks at which concrete measures you can take as a municipality, and helps carry them out.
The largest platform for homesharing, with knowledge of national and local rules.
Recruitment and matchmaking with tailored campaigns, every host personally screened.
Personal guidance of residents and staff alike, so your own capacity stays free.
Qualitative and quantitative insight, and measurement of policy effects.
Coffee with aldermen at the homes of hosts and tenants, in Zaanstad, Haarlem and Rotterdam. Important for support, commitment and generating media attention.
Through the platform we widen the supply of rooms for students and make better use of the housing already in the city.
Renting out a room shortens the waiting list without building. The pilot with the Utrecht corporations showed real value for tenants living in homes that are too large, who are lonely, or who struggle to make ends meet. More and more corporations are working on shared living and have stock that suits it, but do not yet know how to approach it.
A permission model that fits your tenancy agreements and the way you already work.
Screening per tenant and support throughout the whole rental period.
Answers to questions from tenants and from your organisation about benefits, permission and rent levels.
Host and tenant in the neighbourhood. Renting out a room brings daily contact as well as income.
For municipalities and corporations we work in four steps. You choose whether we advise or also deliver, once or structurally, in one neighbourhood or across the whole area.
Qualitative and quantitative mapping of what renting out a room and shared living could deliver for you.
Residents or tenants know what is allowed, and you reach them the right way.
We take on the questions, from residents and from your own staff.
Reports and dashboards on who signs up, where, and what policy is doing.
We started with a handful of homestay houses and have grown into one of the larger housing platforms in the Netherlands. For students who struggle to find anything, that is a concrete and affordable alternative: verified landlords, support with the contract and registration, and supply that keeps coming through the August and September peak. Signing up with Hospi Housing is free.
per month cheaper than an average student room
hosts and host families in the SOS network for urgent cases
Looking for a creative way to reach hosts, students or young people? We are open to affiliate partnerships and to setting up campaigns and promotions together. Our database holds almost 100,000 users, we reach 30,000 students a year, and we have access to both a young and an older audience throughout the Netherlands.
The Hospi Housing stand at the NS glamping event, 2025.
Hospi Housing is one of those fine initiatives that cuts both ways.
With reports and real-time dashboards we offer insight into who rents out a room, who is looking, and what policy is doing. For journalists, for local and national policy, and for partners who want to reach the audience precisely.
We have worked on more than ten projects with TU Delft, HU, VU and The Hague University of Applied Sciences, among others. Looking for a subject or a client? Get in touch.
Do you work for a municipality, an educational institution, a corporation or another organisation involved in shared living? Are you interested in reaching one of our audiences, or would you like to work together in another way? Email or call me and we will look at what is possible together.
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