Abstract

CORTES, Alexis. Right to the City and Housing in Chile's Constitutional Processes (2020-2023). Territ. [online]. 2025, n.52spe, a14542.  Epub Aug 15, 2025. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.14542.

The two recently rejected constitutional proposals in Chile left a large urban debate expressed in norms, influenced by the social movements for housing. This article aims to describe the particular circulation of the right to housing and the right to the city in the Chilean constitutional debate and its centrality in the campaigns that culminated in the rejection of the two proposals that were plebiscite. To this aim, we analyze the translations and mediations carried out by the movement of settlers in alliance with critical urban planners, professionals, and academics, through the Popular Initiatives of Norm presented by them to influence the constitutional deliberation, contrasting them with the drafts that were finally plebiscized. Despite the negative outcome, these drafts will likely become a new source of inspiration for the advancement of anti-neoliberal urban struggles due to the proposed texts and the advocacy strategy of the movements based on urban-legal expertise inspired by the right to the city.

Keywords : Right to the city; right to housing; constitutional process; urban social movements; settlers' movement.

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