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ABSTRACT The present study was designed to examine the how residents residing in two different styles of residential settings with good and bad environmental quality conditions respond to various community lifestyle features of their housing environment and what are its likely consequences on health & well-being. The study was conducted on a homogeneous sample comprising of 320 residents who were heads their respective residential units. A 2X2 factorial design was employed in which equal number of respondents were drawn across environmental quality (good versus bad) and Type of housing (apartments versus duplexes). The major results of this study revealed that residents living in Duplex style of housing perceived their community life- style significantly better than their counterparts living in apartment complexes. Similar trends of result were found between environmental quality and community life - style with residents living in good environmental quality dwellings reported significantly better community life- style in their complexes than their counterparts living in bad quality housing. Finally, the results indicated that high level of community predicted better health & wellbeing. Thus, duplex type of dwelling and high-quality residential complex independently promotes better community life- style to its residents. However, housing type and environmental quality were not related to health & well-being. Finally, community lifestyle was found to be significantly correlated with health. All these results reported are on total scores obtained on Community life- style and health & wellbeing. Implications of the study were discussed.