Due to the intensive land usage as the rapid growth of industry and commerce, congregate housing has become a major residential pattern in urban areas. Congregate housing is a condominium building that is partitioned by several persons. The repairment and reconstruction of the housing must be approved by the majority of the owners. Therefore when nature disasters arrive and cause severe damage on the housings, the residences face serious challenges and have to go through a series of complex, time-consuming procedures in order to get their housings repaired and reconstructed. With the emphasis on the lessons learned from the post-disaster reconstruction of the 921 earthquake, this article first introduces the background information about the urban renewal recstruction policy. It then describes how the non-governmental organization (NGO) developed a platform for self-reliant reconstruction. The loan financing system - the major mechanism that catalyzed the success of the self-reliant reconstruction - is explained. Finally, this problem-solving experiences and housing reconstruction information accumulated from the post-disaster reconstruction are not only worth of history references for the renewal operations of self-reliant communities in normal time, but also able to be used to cope with other housing operations in future post-disaster reconstructions.