Read the excerpt from a 2021 New York Times editorial.In the cities where homelessness is concentrated, like New York and Los Angeles, the sheer scale of the crisis makes it difficult to focus on the individual cases. But in the words of Rosanne Haggerty, the founder of Community Solutions, ‘Homelessness is an inadequate description of a million different housing crises.’ The problems are individual, and until the government knows how many people need help, it’s impossible to know how far America’s communities still have to go.—New York Times Opinion, January 28, 2021
Answer
A
Helping people experiencing homelessness in large cities such as New York and Los Angeles is easier than in smaller cities.
B
Many people whom the government considers homeless are in fact in a different kind of housing situation.
C
It’s impossible for the government to get an accurate count of the number of people experiencing homelessness in a big city.
D
It’s important to get an accurate count of the population experiencing homelessness to plan a helpful government response.
Explanation
The excerpt says homelessness involves many different individual housing crises, and that the government cannot know how much help is needed until it knows how many people need help. This supports the idea that an accurate count is important for planning an effective government response. Choice D best captures that point; the excerpt does not say that counting people in big cities is impossible.
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