diff --git a/base-notebook/start.sh b/base-notebook/start.sh
index 53872983ce..4795dee607 100755
--- a/base-notebook/start.sh
+++ b/base-notebook/start.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ if [ $(id -u) == 0 ] ; then
     # Handle username change. Since this is cheap, do this unconditionally
     echo "Set username to: $NB_USER"
     usermod -d /home/$NB_USER -l $NB_USER jovyan
+    
+    # Handle case where provisioned storage does not have the correct permissions by default
+    # Ex: default NFS/EFS (no auto-uid/gid)
+    if [[ "$CHOWN_HOME" == "1" || "$CHOWN_HOME" == 'yes' ]]; then
+        echo "Changing ownership of /home/$NB_USER to $NB_UID:$NB_GID"
+        chown $NB_UID:$NB_GID /home/$NB_USER
+    fi
 
     # handle home and working directory if the username changed
     if [[ "$NB_USER" != "jovyan" ]]; then