Legal analysis: if the unit pays the housing provident fund, it needs to pay it in full for 6 months before it can use the housing provident fund loan to buy a house; If an individual pays the housing provident fund, it will take 1 year to pay it in full before he can use the housing provident fund loan to buy a house. Housing accumulation fund refers to the long-term housing savings paid by state organs and institutions, state-owned enterprises, urban collective enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, urban private enterprises and other urban enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units, social organizations and their employees.

Legal basis: Article 24 of the Regulations on the Management of Housing Provident Fund is under any of the following circumstances: (1) purchasing, building, renovating or overhauling self-occupied housing; (2) retirement; (three) completely lose the ability to work, and terminate the labor relationship with the unit; (4) Having left the country to settle down; (5) Repaying the principal and interest of the house purchase loan; (six) the rent exceeds the prescribed proportion of family wage income. In accordance with the provisions of items (2), (3) and (4) of the preceding paragraph, the employee housing provident fund account shall be cancelled at the same time. If an employee dies or is declared dead, the employee's heirs and legatees may withdraw the storage balance in the employee's housing provident fund account; If there is no heir or legatee, the storage balance in the employee housing provident fund account shall be included in the value-added income of the housing provident fund.