On Thursday, Jackie McDonald, a former UDA prisoner who has represented the organisation in talks with the de Chastelain decommissioning body, had warned that declaring the ceasefire over could make a bad situation worse.

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It will likely make a bad situation worse.

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But this latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM-5, will only make a bad situation worse because it will lower many diagnostic thresholds and increase the number of people in the general population seen as having a mental illness.

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Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families. (Many ritzy suburbs will not allow a property to have a second kitchen for fear that the owner might take in tenants.) Meanwhile, many of the same communities compete to attract high-value commercial developments.

ECONOMIST: Urban planning