Company towns... in a good way?

That would be the recently proposed Employer Assisted Housing Act, supported by the National Housing Conference, featured in the NH&RA Weekly, and introduced in the Senate as the Housing America's Workforce Act, S. 1330, with a draft for the House available here. Raises some interesting ethical issues, doesn't it? A company's housing subsidies can do a lot of good, especially in an overpriced market -- but what if the employment relationship turns sour? Any thoughts about whether employer housing subsidies can be designed to avoid unhealthy levels of paternalism?