This is, and always has been, normal procedure. The licence to occupy service accommodation lapses if the military husband dies and the family have to make alternative civilian arrangements after a period of grace. Sad but necessary to free up limited service accommodation at a station for those fully entitled.
Of course a storm can easily be whipped up among the impressionable by using emotive language like "kicked out", which is, of course, SOP for journos.
Sad and a fact of service life, but in no way horrific or despicable.