Abstract：
It\'s now well appreciated that social determinants of health are the strongest predictors of our health and well-being. A good argument could be made that housing is at the top of the pyramid of these determinants. And, surprisingly, housing is also the social determinant that could rapidly turn on a dime-that is, with sufficient political will, creating access to housing could be radically expanded in short order. (Unfortunately, of course, it\'s true one can also become suddenly homeless, since few protections exist in policy or capitalist economies to prevent it). That alone sets it apart from social factors such as education and racism-conditions that take a long time to change. In contrast to long-term interventions (education) or culturally stubborn and historically rooted problems (racism), housing is rapidly malleable. In this article, we describe the social condition of homelessness in two settings, comparing and contrasting the concepts, causes, and consequences, along with how people are mobilizing to challenge the conditions that create their housing insecurity. As we review the factors that create housing conditions in each setting, we propose some universal international principles for a new approach to the human right of decent and secure housing.
摘要：
现在人们很清楚，健康的社会决定因素是我们健康和福祉的最强预测因素。可以提出一个很好的论点，即住房是这些决定因素的金字塔的顶端。And,令人惊讶的是,住房也是可能迅速转变为一毛钱的社会决定因素，有足够的政治意愿，创造住房可以在短时间内从根本上扩大。（不幸的是，当然,这是真的，一个人也可以突然变得无家可归，因为政策或资本主义经济中很少有保护措施来防止它)。仅此一项就将其与教育和种族主义等社会因素区分开来，而这些因素需要很长时间才能改变。与长期干预（教育）或文化顽固和历史根源的问题（种族主义）相反，住房是快速延展性。在这篇文章中,我们在两种情况下描述无家可归的社会状况，比较和对比概念，原因,和后果，以及人们如何动员起来挑战造成住房不安全的条件。当我们回顾在每个环境中创造住房条件的因素时，我们提出了一些普遍的国际原则，以新的方式解决体面和安全住房的人权。
