diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1f58d3117..fb05d1d1c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ ignore = [
   'PT019', # Fixture `_mocked_func` without value is injected as parameter, use `@pytest.mark.usefixtures` instead
   'PT022', # [*] No teardown in fixture `cmd_in_tty`, use `return` instead of `yield`
   'PTH109', # `os.getcwd()` should be replaced by `Path.cwd()`
-  'PTH111', # `os.path.expanduser()` should be replaced by `Path.expanduser()`
   'PTH118', # `os.path.join()` should be replaced by `Path` with `/` operator
   'PTH120', # `os.path.dirname()` should be replaced by `Path.parent`
   'PTH122', # `os.path.splitext()` should be replaced by `Path.suffix`
diff --git a/src/ansible_navigator/utils/functions.py b/src/ansible_navigator/utils/functions.py
index 2136fa583..36d7f6c5b 100644
--- a/src/ansible_navigator/utils/functions.py
+++ b/src/ansible_navigator/utils/functions.py
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ def generate_cache_path(app_name: str) -> Path:
     :param app_name: Name of application - currently ansible_navigator
     :returns: Path to the cache directory
     """
-    cache_home = os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME", f"{os.path.expanduser('~')}/.cache")
+    cache_home = os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME", f"{Path.home()}/.cache")
     return Path(cache_home) / app_name
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils/test_functions.py b/tests/unit/utils/test_functions.py
index be7ee098f..95e5d6024 100644
--- a/tests/unit/utils/test_functions.py
+++ b/tests/unit/utils/test_functions.py
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@ def test_find_many_settings_home(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
 
     :param monkeypatch: The monkeypatch fixture
     """
-    paths = [
-        os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".ansible-navigator" + ext) for ext in EXTENSIONS
-    ]
+    paths = [os.path.join(Path.home(), ".ansible-navigator" + ext) for ext in EXTENSIONS]
 
     def check_path_exists(arg: Any) -> bool:
         return str(arg) in paths