There was no need to ask that. Any government servant with some political approach could get a house. This was called merit. My reaction to the so-called illegal occupation was that newspaper reporters have a habit of creating a sensation out of every small happening. The one who filed this story did not take into account a basic fact.
Vacant houses are like job vacancies.
It is as simple as that. Just as they are without proper allotment orders for these houses, maybe they do not possess proper appointment orders also, and stepped into their posts simply because they were lying vacant. People who have made it a lifelong mission to run down the bureaucracy ignore certain essentials. It is an admitted fact that public servants are paid much less than their real market value. Those who enter government service know this beforehand.