Currently, China’s rural development faces a major challenge of coordinated development of ecological environmental protection and housing construction. Under the traditional development mode, housing construction often ignores ecological constraints, leading to resource waste and environmental degradation. During the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, how to realize the benign interaction between ecological protection and housing construction has become a key issue. Based on the perspective of rural governance, this study analyzes the coordinated development path of rural ecological environmental protection and housing construction by using the entropy value method and the coupled coordination degree model. An evaluation system containing 6 specific indicators in 2 dimensions of housing safety and ecological environmental protection is constructed, and spatial correlation analysis is carried out using Global Moran’s I and Local Moran’s I methods. Taking the countryside of Zhengzhou City as an example, the development level and coupling and coordination relationship between the two systems are calculated from 2014 to 2023. The results show that: the rural ecological environmental protection index grows from 0.224 in 2014 to 0.841 in 2023; the index of high-quality development of housing construction improves from 0.195 to 0.776; the degree of coupling coordination rises from 0.513 to 0.898, with an evolutionary path of on the verge of dysfunction-barely coordinated-primary coordinated-intermediate coordinated-well coordinated; Global Moran’ s I are all greater than 0 and pass the significance test, indicating that the spatial positive correlation is significant. The study proposes differentiated development paths to promote agricultural modernization and improve the construction of rural cultural system in mildly dysfunctional areas, and optimize rural governance and strengthen rural ecological construction in areas on the verge of coordination, which provide theoretical guidance and practical reference for the coordinated development of rural ecological environment protection and housing construction.
