Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     In the past 5 years, as India's hunger for IT parks and new communities appeared tremendous, designers designed supersize projects dreamed up by Indian developers. Then the money disappeared. As the global economic crisis deteriorated, the country's banks turned reluctant to lend.
     "The first to get hit are large projects, says Mohit Gujral, whose firm does lots of big projects and has had to dismiss a quarter of its employees. His firm has worked on some of the high-class projects in the country. As business slows down, Gujral says, "You look at projects and scales you may not have considered earlier.”
     Smaller firms that work directly with users have been less affected. "They’re still fitting out the same square footage(英尺), but at a reduced budget, "said Rahoul Singh, whose firm counts on housing projects funded by private wealth for half its workload.
     Some major projects are going ahead, but with different customers in mind Gujral said that townships his firm is designing were planned originally to include apartments of 950 square feet as well as houses three times that size. Now there will be fewer houses and more of the cheaper apartments, as "affordable housing" becomes the slogan for developers.
     Indian cities face a shortage of 20 million housing units, mostly for low-income families. But most apartments advertised in major cities until last year cost 60,000 dollars-75 times India's average annual income. There were never enough end-users for that and there were never going to be. Some designers believe new projects will now be driven by real demand rather than speculative investment.
     Mohit Gujral has seen a third of his projects shut down, but is hopeful about making up for lost work in areas that still face a shortage-such as low-end housing, schools, and healthcare facilities. His firm is designing a university of 2.5 million square feet in a Delhi suburb. "There are real projects to be delivered,” he said. " India is a developing country. We still have a shortage of housing. We have a shortage of true office space. We have a shortage of just about everything.”