The Right to Adequate Housing within the Municipal Land Use (In Spanish)

Today, the right to adequate housing is considered an essential element of the concept of habitat and also as a prerequisite in the fight against poverty. This has undoubtedly contributed to the constitutionalization of this right by some States and Colombia has not remained indifferent to this trend, and the right to adequate housing reached the status of a fundamental right. Our legal system has assigned a leading role to the municipalities in the promotion, protection and guarantee of the right to adequate housing. However, this right actually materialize into concrete benefits for the poorest is necessary for the State (both the national government and local governments) to design effective public policies on housing, that the Congress to legislate to protect this right to allocate sufficient resources to carry out these policies and legislative mandates, and courts to ensure ownership and enjoyment of this right.