diff -r d53506fe31e1 Doc/library/pathlib.rst
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst	Sat Jan 03 22:33:10 2015 -0600
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst	Sun Jan 04 14:16:15 2015 +0530
@@ -628,6 +628,17 @@
       PosixPath('/home/antoine/pathlib')
 
 
+.. classmethod:: Path.home()
+
+   Return a new path object representing the user's home directory (as
+   returned by :func:`os.path.expanduser` with ``~`` construct)::
+
+      >>> Path.home()
+      PosixPath('/home/antoine')
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.5
+
+
 .. method:: Path.stat()
 
    Return information about this path (similarly to :func:`os.stat`).
diff -r d53506fe31e1 Lib/pathlib.py
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py	Sat Jan 03 22:33:10 2015 -0600
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py	Sun Jan 04 14:16:15 2015 +0530
@@ -1008,6 +1008,13 @@
         """
         return cls(os.getcwd())
 
+    @classmethod
+    def home(cls):
+        """Return a new path pointing to the user's home directory (as
+        returned by os.path.expanduser('~'))
+        """
+        return cls(cls()._flavour.gethomedir(None))
+
     def samefile(self, other_path):
         """Return whether `other_file` is the same or not as this file.
         (as returned by os.path.samefile(file, other_file)).
diff -r d53506fe31e1 Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Sat Jan 03 22:33:10 2015 -0600
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Sun Jan 04 14:16:15 2015 +0530
@@ -1261,6 +1261,17 @@
         p = self.cls.cwd()
         self._test_cwd(p)
 
+    def _test_home(self, p):
+        q = self.cls(os.path.expanduser('~'))
+        self.assertEqual(p, q)
+        self.assertEqual(str(p), str(q))
+        self.assertIs(type(p), type(q))
+        self.assertTrue(p.is_absolute())
+
+    def test_home(self):
+        p = self.cls.home()
+        self._test_home(p)
+
     def test_samefile(self):
         fileA_path = os.path.join(BASE, 'fileA')
         fileB_path = os.path.join(BASE, 'dirB', 'fileB')