Response to "Household Words"

This piece was so focused and overtly political that I really wouldn't have thought of it as "creative nonfiction".  It read more like a persuasive essay with a clear thesis that it tried to argue throughout.  I think the author, for the most part, did a good job of backing up her claims, though a lot of her support were simple appeals to the pathos of the reader.  I would like to point out that, based on my own experiences (which are, granted, anecdotal), European cities have as much or more homelessness as those in America, and that people in these cities seem to have the same attitudes attributed to Americans in this essay.  Also, I think the link between watching the woman being beaten up at the stoplight and the plight that is homelessness in America was an obscure one, and I don't think that it added much as an introduction.