Proper SLAM - ie MOD owned and funded, but maintained under a long term contract by Balfour Beatty - is a good product but it was killed off over 10 years ago, even though £4.5 Bn had been profiled across the Services. The Army pulled out and preferred to do down the ruinously expensive pfi route, resulting in crappy ‘Slam like’ ghettos, and managed with the same derisory mindset. The Head of Accommodation at DIO thought the whole thing was too expensive and eventually pulled the plug. She, of course, got promoted.
I think the days of heavily subsidised accommodation of any sort are numbered. Poor accommodation conflated with lifestyle changes and increasing expectations means that an inexorable **** to the private sector will occur - and NAM is wholly inadequate for the task.
The concept of living and fighting together will become a distant memory.