While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating for home-owners, whose equity-in many cases representing a life's savings-can plunge or even disappear.

(A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose

(B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their

(C) for homeowners they are potentially devastating, because their

(D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating in that their

(E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose