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The ageing of the Polish population requires active response in many areas of the state’s social policy. One of these areas is securing the housing needs of the older people. At present, the main pillar of the assistance system addressed to the dependent seniors is the family care. In the light of the constant fall in the birth rate in Poland, which began in the early 1990s, and the ongoing migrations of citizens in their productive age, the potential of the families to provide care to their oldest members is reducing. Therefore, we need to think about securing the needs of the growing population of the dependent seniors. The particular attention should be paid to the housing situation of older dependents who need assistance and support in their daily functioning. The paper sets out to discuss the possibilities of securing the housing needs of seniors with limited independence, based on the currently applicable legal regulations. It presents the examples of good practices in the senior housing industry and information collected during the field research conducted by the Author in 2018 among the dependent seniors in Szczecin.