The rural housing is considered an indicator for the economic level and the environmental situation among villages and the extent of variation of services among them, the environmental behavior of the villagers in terms of the protection of land resources and lack of expansion in building on agricultural land and the use of manufactured building materials instead of destroying agricultural land.It also refers to the health level of family members by protecting them from creepy-crawly and bacterial pollution according to the cleanliness of housing and taking into account the health conditions in its design, and the development in the form of housing is determined by the human position, which varies upon the difference of civilization to which it belongs that includes a number of social, economic and cultural variable factors, besides the housing with its form and design represents the social way of life in any community and reflects the level of living of its members as well as it expresses directly about its customs and traditions.
And if it is difficult that the house is suitable healthy, socially and economically for different categories of people in the city, it is more difficult in the countryside because it is known that it is affected by many societal and technological factors that make the individuals accept to live in particular houses that may be in favor of the development of the individual and the community and on the other hand may not be in the their favor.
This research focused mainly to identify the community, humanitarian, architectural and technological changes affecting rural houses in a village of Tanta in Gharbia Governorate.
The exploration data was collected by using a questionnaire form with personal interview on a sample of 200 Surveyed persons from the total that represents 10% of the housing in Mehalet Menouf village - Gharbia Governorate, the statistical analysis of the data has been corried out in each of the reiterating, the percentage, the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation and the Simple correlation coefficient
The findings indicate that there is a decent relational relationship at the potential level of 0.01 between the environment and the state of residence as a dependent variable and each of the independent variables represented in: the surveyed age, the educational status of each of the surveyed and her children, poultry possessory size and independence of living.
It has also noticed large discrepancy between the respondents with respect to each of the variables related to each of the independence of living, agricultural and animal tenancy and home figurines and it turned out that there is great variation with respect to the direction of respondents towards healthy residential environment.