Problemy mieszkaniowe w budującej się Gdyni, "mieście poszukiwaczy złota"

Housing Problems in Gdynia, so called "City of Gold Seekers", while the City has being built. Gdynia as well as the national large scale port were built completely from scratch in the course of only several years between 1923 and 1939, and were also one of the largest investment enterprises in Poland of that time. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the research on the aspects of the signifi cant need for housing in Gdynia during the interwar period which led people with low income to build several poverty neighborhoods on their own on the city’s outskirts. Most of the premises in the so called poverty-stricken districts were build with construction materials collected from the waste. The discussed issues aim at a better recognition of the poverty neighborhoods of Gdynia from the interwar period and nowadays situation of the sites where they were located.