Selling off of any public sector housing provided for public sector workers is a crime and one that will certainly bite the services on the backside in years to come.
Much the same has happened with police houses, and now with prices going through the roof in many areas, police officers are having to live in the very areas police houses were designed to keep them out of.
One of the good points of AMQ's and for that matter OMQ's was that they instilled a sense of community, as whilst other halves were away, at least there were people in the same boat nearby.
I noticed an ad in Flypast a while back, which promoted the sale of the houses at Scampton as some sort of Anorak Nirvana. Godforsaken place from what I remember.