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The purpose of the study reported was to determine the primary conditioning factors of the regional differentiation of housing construction in Poland in the years 1993-1995. The assumption was adopted that the main factors in differentiation of construction intensity on the regional scale are as follows: financial capacities of the population, previous housing conditions, and demographic situation. This hypothesis was verified with the help of the principal component analysis, accounting for 18 features in 49 provinces (voivodships), and with the multiple regression analysis. The majority of areas with higher intensity of housing construction are the ones located in the eastern part of the country, where the housing situation has been bad. Greater thriftiness, coupled with the wish of bettering the living conditions, given definite demographic pressure and functioning of a more pronounced hidden economy, motivates people to undertake housing construction on their own. The influence of financial conditions is especially visible in rural areas neighbouring with large agglomerations, where economic transformations have already advanced significantly, and there, where the liquidation of the state farming sector brought an important increase of unemployment. A greater intensity of housing construction remaining within the cooperative sector framework persists in some provinces which are quite differentiated as to the economic development level, but where the net migration balance in towns is positive and which are mainly located in the eastern part of the country.