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Housing affordability gap

by crackgmat007 » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:40 pm
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

OA - C
I would like to understand why C is correct as it brings a contrast by using YET rather than adding something to the list. IMO B
Pls share your thoughts?
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by viju9162 » Sat Aug 08, 2009 5:28 am
Hi,

I got stuck with C and D, but landed up with C.

My reasoning is as follows. The author is trying to potray that the middle-class familes are far from buying homes. And the author stress by adding "yet" ( conjunction) that any minimal chances of saving money is ruled out as they need to pay high rentals and so on...
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by dikku07 » Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:50 am
hmmmmm a good one. I too took B as choice..
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Re: Housing affordability gap

by shahdevine » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:09 pm
crackgmat007 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

OA - C
I would like to understand why C is correct as it brings a contrast by using YET rather than adding something to the list. IMO B
Pls share your thoughts?
hey crack,

can't be B...b is run on sentence.
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by crackgmat007 » Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:45 pm
Ahh..thanks for pointing out.
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by arorag » Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:54 am
Found good explanation for this one
https://www.beatthegmat.com/q-140-1000-sc-t17584.html
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