Which paragraph in the section "This Strange Mass Of Immigrants" BEST explains why many immigrants in New York stayed poor?
A
I once asked the agent of a Fourth Ward alley how many people were living there. I was told there were 140 families, 100 Irish, 38 Italian and two German. Except for the agent herself, there was not a person there who had been born in America. The answer was characteristic of the mixed quality of lower New York. One may easily find an Italian, German, French, African, Russian, Jewish and Chinese group huddled together there. The one thing you shall fail to find is a distinctively American community. There is not one, certainly not among the tenements. Where have they gone to, the old inhabitan...
B
Those who live in the tenements are very poor. But one should not assume that they are poor in the sense of nearly becoming beggars.
C
They are not here. In their place has come this strange mass of immigrants. The once unwelcome Irish have been followed by the Italian, the Russian Jew and the Chinese. Wherever these have gone they have crowded the Irish out, filling the tenements across lower Manhattan.
D
The truth is that New York's workers have no other place to live, which is a pity. They are truly poor for having no better homes. And they are becoming poorer as their high rents keep rising.
E
Other
- D
The paragraph that best explains why many immigrants in New York stayed poor is paragraph D. It highlights the fact that New York's workers have no other place to live, and the high rents continue to rise, making them become even poorer. This lack of affordable housing options likely contributed significantly to why many immigrants in New York stayed in poverty.