Abstract: Housing is not only a common problem in the process of global urban development, but also a focal issue of migrant population settling in cities in current China. Bases on the 2014 housing questionnaire data on newcomers to Guangzhou, this paper studies the influence mechanism of residential models and housing types on migrant population's will of settling in metropolis. Results show that education level, family economic capacity, occupational status, housing tye and residential model have significant impact on migrant population's will of settling in cities. The migrant population who rents formal housings and lives together with family members has stronger will of settling in cities. A housing type functions as an intervening variable between a residential model and the will of settling in cities. The migrant population living together with family members tends to choose formal housings and has higher probability to settle down. This paper proposes to construct a benign and complementary dualistic housing rental market, protect the dwelling right of those people who live in informal housings, convert informal housings from temporary residential place to the incubator of the middle class, which can promote the new urbanization process more effectively.

Key words: migrant population, residential model, housing type, will of settling in cities, dualistic housing rental market, Guangzhou