Legal basis: temporary measures of social assistance
Article 37 The State shall provide housing assistance to families with minimum living security and destitute persons who are supported by scattered means that meet the prescribed standards.
Thirty-eighth housing assistance through the allocation of public rental housing, housing rental subsidies, rural reconstruction and other ways to implement.
Thirty-ninth housing difficulties and relief standards shall be determined and promulgated by the local people's governments at or above the county level according to the level of economic and social development and housing prices in their respective administrative regions.