Right to the City and Housing in Chile's Constitutional Processes (2020-2023)

The two recently rejected constitutional proposals in Chile left a rich urban debate expressed in norms, influenced by social movements for housing. This article describes the particular circulation of both the right to housing and the right to the city in the Chilean constitutional debate and their centrality in the campaigns that culminated in the rejection of the two plebiscized proposals. For this purpose, we analyze the translations and mediations carried out by the movement of settlers in alliance with critical urban planners, professionals and academics, with special focus on the Popular Initiatives of Norm presented by them to influence the constitutional deliberation, contrasting them with the norms that were finally plebiscized. Despite the negative outcome, it is likely that these drafts will become a new source of inspiration for the advancement of anti-neoliberal urban struggles.