The article concerns selected aspects of the housing policy of “people’s” Poland, due to the adaptation of new legal regulations regarding the housing market in the post-Stalinist period. They are shown against the background of normative acts and the actual situation in the first, post-war decade of communist rule in Poland. The actual exclusive electrical installation was also presented: Elbląg and Wąbrzeźno. The basis of the article was the literature on the subject, legal acts regarding housing management in the “Journal of Laws” and “Monitor Polski”, as well as archival documents, providing access to selected cities during the communist period for socio-economic purposes.