I added this comment to another post, but it is equally valid on this thread. It is not just housing that servicemen/wowman are being shafted with but all pay and conditions.
I was at Cranditz recently and met an Act Plt Off who had graduated from IOT and was awaiting courses etc.
I was appalled to hear that because of the miniscule pay, and the fact that he had a family, he was on benefit. What are the services coming to when a serviceman (of any rank) has to claim benefit (family credit etc) in order to survive? He did not have a degree and was joining a ground branch so no fast-track promotion and flying pay for him and no chance of this individual getting on the housing ladder.
BEagle says that in the 70s some Plt Offs were on assistance, well it is beginning to happen again. History beginning to repeat itself again.