The planning, design and constructional management of the affordable, low-rent and policy-regulated rental housing reflects a nation's politics, economy, culture and history. After the status quo of planning and construction of indemnificatory housing at home and abroad is compared and analyzed and the reason for China's relatively lagging behind on this issue pointed out, based on the outstanding international experience of planning and constructing indemnificatory houses, a solution to the problem, a suitable mechanism for China's planning and construction of indemnificatory housing guided mainly by the government with considerations given to the development of the local characteristics is proposed.