ABSTRACT
Second home ownership has rapidly developed in Poland during recent decades. It is estimated that the number of second homes has doubled since 1995, reaching more than 600,000 in 2013. The chapter describes recent transformations in the social composition of the group of second home owners in Poland, based on two sources of information: the results of nationwide social surveys and field research in the Bory Tucholskie region. The study has identified changes in the structure of second home owners after 1989. The major change since the 1990s, besides numerical increase, has been the relatively fast increase in second home ownership among all groups that previously had limited access to them. It can be thus claimed that second homes became more egalitarian, accessible for wider groups of members of the middle class.
