This paper considers the effect of low per capita housing stock on labor productivity. Theoretically, a negative effect may be expected. Low per capita housing leads to greater difficulty in finding housing, which in turn leads to reduced labor mobility and a less productive allocation of labor. A dynamic model is developed which displays this relationship and which takes into account inter-regional migratory flows induced by regional labor productivity differentials. The empirical part of the paper focuses on cross-sectional information, using primarily 1989 Polish data aggregated at the regional level.