Is it permissible for an employed wife, whose workplace provides her with free housing, to ask her husband to pay half the presumed rental value, and is this request considered assistance to the husband, or does she not have the right to do so, especially since the husband bears all other expenses and is suffering from financial hardship and debts?

The wife's maintenance, encompassing food, drink, clothing, and housing, all according to what is customary, are rights obligatory upon the husband.

The fact that the wife has an income or housing does not absolve the husband of any of his obligatory rights, because this maintenance is in exchange for enjoying her [as a wife].

As for financial cooperation between spouses, it falls under good companionship and observing generosity.

It is important to note that a civil servant's rental of housing provided by the state is subject to its conditions.