Although the housing is considered as a necessity for a lot of people，large masses of the middle and low income people can’t solve the housing problem by themselves. Therefore，the government has the responsibility to take some measures to protect the poor families’ basic inhabitation rights. Based on the case study of the indemnificatory housing policy in Guangzhou，this paper analyzes the core concepts of indemnificatory housing policies，the course of indemnificatory housing construction and the accomplishment of this policy. This paper proposes some countermeasures for the government to improve housing policies.