You protect your residents. Protect the team that serves them.
Your inspectors, property managers, and maintenance staff enter units and walk properties alone every day. Apartment Guardian gives each of them a one-press way to summon help — with real-time location and an audit-ready record of every alert.
Safe staff serve residents better.
Housing authorities exist to provide safe, stable housing to the people who need it most. But the employees who deliver on that mission — housing managers, inspectors, and maintenance technicians — spend their days working independently, entering occupied and vacant units, walking grounds, and meeting the public, often without a coworker nearby.
When your team feels safe, they show up with more confidence, stay longer, and serve residents better. Apartment Guardian is the simplest way to give every frontline employee a reliable way to get help — and to give your agency a documented record that you took staff safety seriously.
Talk to us about your authority →Built for how housing authority staff actually work
- Inspectors & managers entering units alone, all day
- Maintenance techs across grounds and vacant units
- Eviction & delinquency interactions that can turn tense
- Audit-ready logging that fits your compliance culture
Protecting the team that serves your residents
Your inspectors, property managers, and maintenance staff spend their days working alone. Here's how one press brings help from two directions at once — in about 80 seconds.
Built for how your authority actually operates.
Hover any card to see why it matters for a housing authority.
Works anywhere your employee goes
Hover to learn more →Not tied to any physical location
The device travels with your employee — not bolted to a wall or a desk. Whether they're in a vacant unit, on the grounds, in a stairwell, or across the portfolio, protection goes wherever the work does.
Help from two directions at once
Hover to learn more →911 and your own team — together
One press contacts local emergency services and alerts other employees at the same time. Your staff get the fastest possible outside response and a nearby colleague who knows exactly where they are.
Easy-to-manage dashboard
Hover to learn more →Swap contacts as staff change
A simple user dashboard lets you add devices and update alert contacts in minutes — so when your team changes, your coverage stays current. No tickets, no vendor call, no downtime.
Help in one press
Hover to learn more →About 3 seconds to help
No app to open, no phone to unlock, no password. A single press connects to 911 or monitoring in roughly 3 seconds — about 8 times faster than a cell phone.
Location on every alert
Hover to learn more →Responders know where to go
Every alert reports its location with building-level accuracy — so even if an employee can't speak, help can find them. Add room-level location for larger sites.
Audit-ready incident log
Hover to learn more →Documentation you can stand behind
Every activation logs automatically — device, time, location, and recipients — into an exportable record. It fits the documentation and compliance culture your agency already lives in.
Onsite staff feel the risk long before an incident.
Simple to deploy across your authority.
No wiring. No IT project. No app for staff to manage. Most authorities are protected within days.
One device per employee
Each frontline staff member gets a wearable PanicTap device — one button, always on them.
Press for help
A single press connects to 911 or monitoring and alerts your team, with the employee's location.
Every alert is logged
Activations record automatically to your dashboard — an exportable, audit-ready incident record.
What housing authorities ask us most.
Why do housing authority employees need panic devices?
Public housing authority staff — property and housing managers, inspectors, and maintenance technicians — perform much of their work alone: entering occupied and vacant units for inspections and repairs, walking grounds, and interacting with residents and the public. That independent, unit-entry work carries the same lone-worker risk found across multifamily, often in higher-need environments. A wearable panic device gives each employee a fast, reliable way to summon help wherever they are on the property.
How does this fit our compliance and documentation requirements?
Housing authorities already operate under HUD oversight, PHAS performance scoring, and workplace-safety obligations. Apartment Guardian's automatic incident logging captures every activation — with device, time, location, and recipients — in an exportable format. That gives your agency an audit-ready record of both incidents and your commitment to staff safety, without adding paperwork for your team.
Is staff safety connected to evictions and neighborhood conditions?
Research increasingly links housing instability to elevated community risk — a 2025 University of Chicago study found each 1% increase in a neighborhood's eviction rate was associated with roughly 2.66 additional nearby shootings. Housing authority staff work directly at that intersection, including during delinquency and court-ordered eviction processes. Equipping them to summon help quickly is a practical response to an elevated-risk environment.
How is Apartment Guardian priced for a housing authority?
Pricing is simple and per-device, typically one device per frontline employee. Authorities we work with range from a handful of devices to several dozen, scaled to staff count. There's no app, no wiring, and no IT project — devices arrive ready to use, and training is a short online module.
Which housing authorities already use Apartment Guardian?
We're proud to protect staff at housing authorities across the country, including Atlanta Housing, Spokane Housing Authority, New Bedford Housing Authority, Mercer County, and Wenatchee Housing Authority — alongside 170+ property management organizations and 4,000+ communities nationwide since 2012.
See what staff safety could look like at your authority.
Tell us a bit about your team and properties, and we'll follow up — usually within one business day. Want to try it first? Ask about a demo device your staff can carry.
Prefer to read first? See our research on evictions and staff safety →