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Housing is one of the main determining factors for the success of the goat business, especially the Ettawa Crossbreed (EC) goat. In Polman district, housing techniques carried out by farmers consist of several methods, namely by binding around the house without any permanent cages, semi-permanent cages, permanent cages but floors from the ground and permanent cages with wooden floors and permanent cages with concrete floors. The research was conducted in the Limboro sub-district of Polman district which is one of the centers of EC goat farming with different housing. The number of respondents was 187 people spread in four villages that became centers of goat farming. The number of samples is at least 10% of the total population in each village. Independent variables include age (X1), experience (X2), education (X3), number of family members (X4), number of livestock (X5), attitude (X6) and subjective norms (X7). Data analysis using the F test and t test using multiple linear regression models. From the F test results it is known that the independent variable had a strong relationship with the adoption of housing technology in Polman district with an R value of 0.42. The contribution of the independent variable to the change in adoption of housing technology reached 21.4%, which means that there were 79.6% of other variables that are not measured that affect the adoption of housing technology. Attitude variable significantly and positively influenced (P <0.01) on adoption of housing technology. Subjective norm variables had a significant and negative effect (P <0.01) on adoption of housing while the number of family members had a significant and positive effect (P <0.05) on adoption of housing.