This paper reviews the research progress in the effect on housing demand from the perspective of general population structures. Foreign researches are ahead of the domestic researches in both time and depth. There are lots of quantitative analysis at home, and qualitative analysis still need to be strengthened. Previous researches pay more attention to the influence of age structure, family structure, urban and rural structure on the demand for housing, and concentrate on the influence on the number of housing demand, while the researches involved in the influence on housing structure are little. Therefore, it’s necessary to strengthen the researches on the influence of other structures on housing demand and expand the research on the influence of population structure on housing structure.