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Housing policy influences not only a quality of social life, but also investment in residential sector and via this channel it affects the national economy. Housing policy is under the influence of historical circumstances, the priorities adopted by the government so it depends on the ruling political options. The aim of the paper is to present the changing conditions of housing policy and their consequences in UK to have a background for analyzing the instrument of Private Finance Initiative in housing. This gives the opportunity to consider the applicability of such instrument in Poland.