Housing allocation and Catch-22
In his comically surreal war novel, Joseph Heller explained the paradox of Catch-22: ‘A concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.’ For if you flew more missions you were crazy and did not have to. But if you did not want to you were sane and had to. In other words, a no-win situation. Nicholas Dobson This was unfortunately the position faced by Mrs Habibo Nur (Mrs Nur), a Birmingham City Council housing applicant with three adult daughters including one, Zakiya, who has learning difficulties and suffers from cerebral...
Source: lawgazette.co.uk