ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the association, as well as providing empirical evidence that it remains valid in the case of nontraditional households living in old built-up neighbourhoods of Gdańsk. It focuses on the two cases involving spatial flexibility with the recognition of 'in-situ' housing transformation as characteristic of the post-socialist context and rapid transitions between different housing as commonly executed by young nest-leavers. The post-socialist city of Gdańsk, a seaport and part of the largest urban agglomeration in northern Poland, appears as an interesting setting for a study of residential flexibility for a number of reasons. Interviewees were contacted through snowball sampling and interviewed usually at their homes with the use of a digital recorder. The subsequent analysis aimed to uncover residential flexibility interrelations through their deconstruction with regard to households, dwellings and neighbourhoods. The residential mobility patterns vary between the interviewees and show a close connection to household type and form of tenure.
