This document adopted guidelines and principles from those previously approved by regional and national governments, such as the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City (2000) and the Statute of the City in Brazil (2001). In the last decade, it has itself inspired debates and collective texts about the city we want, such as the Charter of the City of Mexico for the Right to the City, approved by all the local government bodies in 2010. It was also an important basis for its recently sanctioned first Constitution (February 2017).

Similarly, many of these proposals have been included in instruments signed by national governments, which includes the Constitution of Ecuador, sanctioned in 2008, and the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City promoted by the United Cities and Local Governments network (2010). Further more, the Heads of State of Latin America instructed the Ministers of Housing and Urban Planning to promote the consecration of the Right to the City through the generation of public policies that ensure access to land, adequate housing, infrastructure and social equipment, and the mechanisms and sources of sufficient and sustainable financing.