diff -r 4d1ae7eec0d4 Lib/pathlib.py
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py	Wed Dec 31 16:31:06 2014 -0800
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py	Thu Jan 01 16:38:26 2015 -0200
@@ -1008,6 +1008,12 @@
         """
         return cls(os.getcwd())
 
+    @classmethod
+    def home(cls):
+        """Return a new path pointing to the user's home directory
+        """
+        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 4d1ae7eec0d4 Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Wed Dec 31 16:31:06 2014 -0800
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py	Thu Jan 01 16:38:26 2015 -0200
@@ -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')