Sentence Correction

Hi there,

Could you explain to me the reasoning in order to resolve this SC ?

As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are especially hard-hit,and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures.
(A) and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and
(B) since these families can no longer afford to buy homes, furthermore
(C) for these families can no longer afford to buy homes, yet
(D) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes; however,
(E) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes, for

Answer is C

IMO : E, I am surprised C is answer. I am sure C is wrong.

Xbond wrote: As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are especially hard-hit,and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures.
(A) and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and
(B) since these families can no longer afford to buy homes, furthermore
(C) for these families can no longer afford to buy homes, yet
(D) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes; however,
(E) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes, for

Answer is C

It is the answer from 1000 SC

maihuna wrote:IMO : E, I am surprised C is answer. I am sure C is wrong.

Xbond wrote: As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are especially hard-hit,and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures.
(A) and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and
(B) since these families can no longer afford to buy homes, furthermore
(C) for these families can no longer afford to buy homes, yet
(D) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes; however,
(E) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes, for

Answer is C

I thought the answer would have been B, since = just evidence and furthermore says that they are still going in the same direction... overall direction has not changed

me too...

C is correct...it simply says that middle income families are hard hit for {read because} they no longer qualify to buy homes yet they have to spend more than 25% of the income on rentals...

Although it is from 1000 SC, this one is correct. "for" means "because"

Can you explain why please?

heshamelaziry wrote:Although it is from 1000 SC, this one is correct. "for" means "because"

Found an explanation from Google.

After having mentioned the "ability to buy a home", we have to mention "the house rents are high too". The latter is an additional problem faced by families. So, a "furthermore" / "yet" / "moreover" / "besides"/"in addition" is required ["yet will have the same meaning as "besides" here].
A is incorrect because "and" doesn't do enough to clearly mention "high rent rates" as an "additional problem".

That leaves us with B and C.
[I hope, I do not need to explain why D and E are incorrect.]

B changes the meaning of the sentence.
B implies : since these families can no longer afford housing - the housing affordability gap widens. [should be the other way round]

Moreover, we don't need a "because" or a "since" here as this is not a cause-effect situation. We need a conjunction instead.
"MIF families are hard hit.. and/for they are unable to afford homes.."
'for' correctly join both sentences.