On World Mental Health Day, psychologist and Senate candidate Jazmín Aguilar urges Chile to pass a comprehensive mental health law, arguing that well-being depends on safe housing, decent work, security, and community support, and citing OECD data on high depression and rising suicides to press for prevention, care, and rights across schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

Chile needs new regulatory tools and interministerial coordination to confront informal settlements, coupling access to formal jobs with temporary public housing and children's education so real housing solutions replace evictions and precarity.