The invention provides an intelligent control method and an intelligent control system for public rental housing. The intelligent control method is characterized in that the bidirectional verification between an access control card and an user card is realized through information acquisition equipment, the access control card and the user card in the system, if the verification is successful, a door lock of the public rental housing is opened, the unlocking time is obtained, a processor is used for acquiring a fingerprint of a user through fingerprint acquisition equipment and comparing the fingerprint and preset fingerprint information, if the information is consistent, a legal unlocking record is obtained, if the information is inconsistent, an illegal unlocking record is obtained, the locking time, the legal unlocking record and the illegal unlocking record are uploaded to a server through a wireless master controller, and the server is used for determining the state information of the public rental housing according to the locking time, the legal unlocking record and the illegal unlocking record. The intelligent control system has the advantages that the state information of the public rental housing is automatically and accurately determined through the matched application of the user card, the information acquisition equipment, the access control card, the fingerprint acquisition equipment, the processor, the wireless master controller and the server, so that the automatic registration of the state information of the public rental housing is realized.